**QOTD 🔖 **
*Is free speech an end in itself or merely a means to an end?*

@everyone

It's an end to sex

Means to an end

Means to an end

@21ooAB it's gay tbh

Free speech is only good in so far the people with it are good

It logically should be allowed by anyone who intends to actually be correct

Otherwise they're scared of criticism

But shouldn't be a goal itself

The "Market place of ideas" is a flawed theory, assuming all are on an equal playing field, but with proper filtration and influence, it can be a means to an end.

Free speech should be allowed for the populous to criticize the state

Many people aren't really answering the question

An end

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Nobody will take anybody seriously with free speech

Free speech?

More like

Gay speech

Free Speech is a right. Rights are an end.

What makes rights an end

Even though you are right, you're still jewish so stfu @Attika

@Asdrubal No.

an sjw is someone who knows the rights of everyone and the responsibilities of no one

They've really ran out of sensible questions. Just make it question of the week, or month. You could also make it topical to get ideas, like this week ask a question about UK politics or the election more specifically.

Of course free speech isn't an end like wtf. A society in absolute hellish turmoil that has free speech isn't an end that anyone would want.

Is free speech really a right? How can we seperate "right" from what is virtuous? We ought to be able to choose to do what is right, but we should also burn books and kill pornographers, so like

At least that's an interesting question

kill pornographers?

Sex slaves

The answer is quite simple. Like a lot of things, it comes back to whether an Abrahamic God exists. I'm not well versed on the Bible or other such books - I've only read Genesis - but I've been told that porn is against Christianity. I've also heard people say that free speech in general isn't supported by Christianity and Islam. If I realised that an Abrahamic God exists, I would comb through the corresponding available texts and decipher what was and wasn't allowed. However, until then I shall continue to support free speech.

inb4 yes I know I need to read more of the Bible this has just reminded me, I will start again tonight.

I decided to stop for my health because I did actually read it for about a month but I was way too invested in it. I was going through it too slowly with too fine a comb and I was thinking about it all the time and I kept getting perplexed and I, no joke, got a couple bad headaches purely out of confusion at new verses.

If you have a brain then Christianity is against porn for everything about it is sinful @Mahojo2

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that

And even if you don’t have a brain you can figure out porn is a negative for you by sheer logical thought if you aren’t addicted to it

@Deli.v2 yes?

@Mahojo2 I would recommend referencing church tradition and philosophers on it, "freedom" is good to the church but freedom meant something different pre-enlightenment that they coopted the term to get good optics.

@CaesarKonrad can u essplain why porn is bad

@Ater Votum well let’s see it is highly addictive this has been proven by scientific studies and it makes you seek it out rather than actual sex. People who regularly watch experience less sexual gratification and often develop deviant sexual taste because porn functions like a drug you need a more extreme dosage over time. A study on relationships found relationships where no partner watched porn did the best by looking at personal commentinment, negative communication, infidelity, and sexual gratification there were some others but those are the most important