Posted by so on May 22, 2005, at 10:33:34
In reply to Re: experiences with authoritarian belief systems, posted by Dr. Bob on May 22, 2005, at 9:32:27
> > I have had bad experiences with authoritarian belief systems.
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> Would you be willing to say more about that? You could redirect a reply to Social or somewhere...
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> Bob...somewhere like Faith maybe, and then not unless I could criticize ideas without being held liable for the feelings of people who embrace those ideas.
I would rather hear more from you about the economics of holding people to account for their own emotional responses to other's statements as well as for other's emotional responses to their statements. Does that grow from your faith in some particular premise, or is there some science behind that?
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