The people I am engaging with here are not Nazis and would agree with me on the point that Nazis are bad so there is little to be gained by patting one another on the back. However there are people here who, whether I agree with them on the Nazi issue or not, are threatening values which are immensely important and promoting violence against others. That is something that I feel an ethical obligation to oppose and seeing as that is the other view being promoted here it is one that is available for me to argue against.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~
The people I am engaging with here are not Nazis and would agree with me on the point that Nazis are bad so there is little to be gained by patting one another on the back. However there are people here who, whether I agree with them on the Nazi issue or not, are threatening values which are immensely important and promoting violence against others. That is something that I feel an ethical obligation to oppose and seeing as that is the other view being promoted here it is one that is available for me to argue against.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~