Re: Dissent can bring with it pain, even death.

On Jan 9, 2013 5:04 PM, "a b" <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Rami Rustom <[email protected]> wrote
> >
> >
>  Why do people hate dissenters? What are they afraid of? Why do they
> > want to shut us up?
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> Traditions, Norms, Individuals, organizations, collectives, societies,
> movements, ideologies, philosophies, moralities tend to permit/welcome
> dissent of a given range of categories, but  discourage, disapprove
> of, react against dissent of another set of categories.
>
> You ask why, Why do people hate [some] dissent. By and large it is
> because they regard it as traitorous, immoral, evil, dehumanizing,
> disgusting, vile, etc, etc. In most cases, dissenters who cross these
> lines are given the 'benefit of the doubt'...they are assumed to be
> acting out of ignorance, and provided with explanations and historical
> reassurances the issues were resolved long ago, and this sort of
> dissent is known to be harmful and immoral.
>
> And so on and so on.
>
> I am interested to know which components of what I describe above, do
> not have parallels among Popperian's?

I don't understand the question. What do you mean by 'parallels'? What
is it that you want to know? What problem are you trying to solve?

-- Rami