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

On Jan 19, 2013 5:58 PM, "hibbsa" <[email protected]> wrote:
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> --- In [email protected], Rami Rustom wrote:
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> > On Jan 9, 2013 5:04 PM, "a b" wrote:
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> > > On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Rami Rustom wrote
> > > >
> > > >
> > > Why do people hate dissenters? What are they afraid of? Why do they
> > > > want to shut us up?
> > >
> > > 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?
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> What I'm asking you is whether the way popperians distinguish acceptable
> from unacceptable dissent

I didn't know there was such a thing as unacceptable dissent. What is that?


> is consistent with the high level description
> I provided.
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> >What problem are you trying to solve?
>
> I'm trying to help you solve the problem you are trying to solve...along
> the lines of seeking an answer to 'why do people hate dissenters'

-- Rami