Socratic Monologue

I tend to think that there have never been black and white answers, but in the past people were somewhat more likely to think that there were, and so had gotten some things very, very wrong. That last clause puts things in black and white terms, though, so...

I wasn't voicing any sort of judgement on the NZ case, though I do think that if seeing a video pushes people into violence, there are much, much deeper problems that should be focused on and that we don't even have the collective guts to talk about. I just wanted to point out the facts about NZ legislation, and my opinion that censorship is such a horrifying thing that I don't think this case is bad enough or of the right sort to justify calling it that.

Addendum: I just read the first couple bits of the Kiwifarms link (I'd only looked at the ABC News link previously). One of the dark back rooms of the internet, there. I'm going to try to figure out how to prevent my computer from going there ever again...