From the Archives: A Free Speech Argument for Censorship
oh dear god what have I written? Actually its not that bad. I did fix it a bit tho.
A #FreeSpeech argument for Censorship
Value Signals vs Negative Emotional Noise
I've been trying to pin down what underpins arguments against free speech. Ideological coherence seems to be a key component. It seems likely that only a portion of people can handle group moral signaling from outside their moral community without entering the defensive puritanical mindset of burn the witch. It might be a IQ thing or a big 5 openness thing or it could be founded on a sense of security socially or the depth of conceptual grounding.
A large degree of our thinking is outsourced to like minded individuals. Members of the tribe or in group. The best minds who have lived, our ancestors and the gods who made the first values manifest from themselves. When collective coherence breaks down it is a precursor to the fractionation of the shared group into subgroups instilled with animosity over betrayal, broken allegiances and unreciprocated trust and values. The precursors to violence and atrocities.
We live in a time where the future is uncertain and the correct path is hazy and in dispute.
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