Re: scientists are going to bluesky

On Tue, 26 Nov 2024, JAB wrote:

On Tue, 26 Nov 2024 16:24:05 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
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If people are stupid and do it,
they only have themselves to blame.

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Irrelevant point....

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No, you quote me out of context. The context explains why it is not an
irrelevant point.

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Your implicit assumption is all are equal mentally, but adults should
know children are not, and these adults watch their words around
children.
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This observation is old news: "Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
expressed similar views, whether comments are "serious or not" she
said people listen to those in power."
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Pied Piper of Hamelin - The phrase "pied piper" has become a metaphor
for a person who attracts a following through charisma or false
promises"
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My assumption is that we are all responisble for our own lives, and we have freedom of speech. The ones who are not so well mentally, have caretakers, friends or family, who can (but are not forced to) take care of them.
Therefore, there is no problem with Trump saying what he did, since it is not a huge assumption that most adults are smart enough to understand that.
If you start to make weird assumptions, eventually you end up not being able to say anything at all. There are after all crazy people who might do the opposite of what they hear. If Trump would say life, they would commit suicide. Probably no such person exists...but, we can never be sure.
So censoring yourself based on your assumptions eventually will end up with no speech at all.