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Politics : Actual left/right wing discussion
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To: TimF who wrote (3306)10/21/2006 9:19:19 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) of 10087
 
Not long ago you and I had a discussion on another thread about drawing a bright line at ideas that were absurd. Flat-earth, I think I called them. Do we as a society respect equally any nonsense that folks choose to espouse or is there some point in the reasonableness continuum at which we no longer have to give it full respect? And if we choose to not give it full respect, how do we express that less than full respect?

Obviously you and I would agree that we don't criminalize it nor do we even stifle speaking it. But then what? That article mentioned the scenario of a reporter providing balance. Does a reporter need to balance any report that mentions 9/11, for example, with someone who thinks it was Bush and not AQ that did it? Does that reporter need to balance reports with holocaust deniers or climate change deniers? Surely not. Surely we can draw a line somewhere.
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