01-03-2017, 07:12 AM
(12-30-2016, 08:09 AM)Odin Wrote:(12-30-2016, 12:14 AM)Galen Wrote:(12-28-2016, 08:19 AM)Odin Wrote: These Fascist lunatics are a threat to a free society. They are exactly the type Popper was talking about when he said that we might have to suppress the intolerant to preserve a tolerant society.
I think I have heard something very similar to this a long time ago: We have to destroy the village to save it.
More like exiling a few troublemakers from the village.
Given the vote totals in the last election it would seem like you want to exile half the population. Clearly more than a few troublemakers.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises