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How to Get Banned From LGF

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steroid12/31/2009 5:07:16 am PST

I have a problem with this sort of thinking:

Premise A: It is wrong to do X.
Premise B: It is wrong to disagree with Premise A.
Premise C: It is wrong to disagree with Premise B.

And so on.

Just because one does not support torture does not mean one must be intolerant of those who do. Now, it’s certainly the right of any blogger to ban people for whatever reason, and it may even be the right course of action to ban people for supporting torture. But it is not intuitive. People come on to a blog expecting to find an open forum for all opinions reasonably stated. Unless your post is pure trollery, on the order of, “Torchur teh MOSLEMS DOOD!” you expect to not get banned. Because if it goes on, eventually you move from the position of, “You may not endorse torture” to “You must decry torture,” which is just enforced orthodoxy.

I hope I have not offended the regulations of the blog. I am not trying to troll, but to offer an opinion on what would make a better blog.