• JohnDoe@lemmy.myserv.one
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    9 months ago

    There is another solution. Make it so witches cannot cause harm, everyone gives a little bit to make everything work for everyone.

    We already give things away: money with taxes, certain liberties, information, hours of our lives; how many of those are done with complete intentionality? i.e. could we choose to do something else? I’d rather do something I choose or want to do even if its harmful or less pleasant because it’s something I am privy to instead of not.

    • andrew@radiation.party
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      9 months ago

      A gun would help stop those witches from flying in the sky.

      I may be taking this analogy the wrong way.

      • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
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        9 months ago

        Okay, the gun thing made me laugh.

        But perhaps you aren’t taking the analogy the wrong way?

        A gun is usage of force. And the paradox of tolerance does prescribe the usage of force against “the intolerant”, in a few situations. Not everything is solved by, for example, letting fascists to hang with their friends in McDonald’s. (Except Mussolini. Upside down.)