Some Muhammad cartoons

[jberryhill]

46. Well it's tough to engage in discussion these days

There are interesting arguments both ways in the "hate speech" department.

One traditional way of trying to make up one's mind is to question people who have made up their minds on a subject... "what about this, or what about that?"

But if you do that on DU these days, what you get hit with is the assumption that you HAVE made up your mind and are being disingenuous.

Take something simple, like "Would it harm society if we made it illegal to question whether Neil Armstrong landed on the moon."

I think that's a settled question and I don't see what we would lose by doing that, not that it matters. Others would say that chipping away at free expression by one iota would bring down freedom like a deck of cards.

I don't know, but I like to discuss it with people who think they do. (on edit: the speech thing, not the Neil Armstrong thing)