Greetings:
I was thinking the other day on how, despite the constant fightback from the regressives (as David Fleetwood would put it), we have generally succeeded through in cimenting civil liberties, fighting censorship and scientific progress. And considering that our social behaviour has also changed, seemingly always towards liberalism, I was thinking if the day that censorship will become immoral will come in the future.
I mean, thinking back, let's say half of the 1800's, the idea of women voting, studying and working would have been regarded from ridiculous to sinful. Considering that, do you it is feasible one day censorship becomes immoral?
Being realistic, most likely I won't be alive to see it. But I'd really think one day free speech will be nailed as a fundamental value of western culture. Sure, we will have blatant hate speech in some sectors, but also we could get rid of reporters being killed for reporters, call for murders like the one on Rushdie's head, and so on.
It is quite probably a society like that would have a scary face we might not find too nice, because at the same time that the perception of that changes, some other behaviours will change; some for the worse. But I digress, do you think such moment will ever come?
- The Jaguar
I was thinking the other day on how, despite the constant fightback from the regressives (as David Fleetwood would put it), we have generally succeeded through in cimenting civil liberties, fighting censorship and scientific progress. And considering that our social behaviour has also changed, seemingly always towards liberalism, I was thinking if the day that censorship will become immoral will come in the future.
I mean, thinking back, let's say half of the 1800's, the idea of women voting, studying and working would have been regarded from ridiculous to sinful. Considering that, do you it is feasible one day censorship becomes immoral?
Being realistic, most likely I won't be alive to see it. But I'd really think one day free speech will be nailed as a fundamental value of western culture. Sure, we will have blatant hate speech in some sectors, but also we could get rid of reporters being killed for reporters, call for murders like the one on Rushdie's head, and so on.
It is quite probably a society like that would have a scary face we might not find too nice, because at the same time that the perception of that changes, some other behaviours will change; some for the worse. But I digress, do you think such moment will ever come?
- The Jaguar