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Because everything's relative. (Or, philosophical skepticism in more academic circles.) This is the most common argument driving both multiculturalism and political correctness. It says: If you're intolerant of different beliefs and lifestyles, you're not only being arrogant (e.g. ethnocentric, phallocentric, etc.) in thinking that your values are the only right ones--you're also philosophically wrong to think that any conviction or lifestyle can be proven rationally to be correct, true, best or even better. No one is right, wrong, or closer or farther from the truth. Ergo, we should all be tolerant...
...specific incidents of violence he discusses. He presents no evidence that banning hate speech will prevent any such violent crimes. He does not appear to even consider that by banning hate speech, he may only make it more attractive to a fringe of society, and if his reasoning is correct, produce even more violence. Kilson repeats time after time that hate speech is dangerous, but fails to produce any concrete evidence proving why. Repetition does not make an assertion any more true. Jol Silversmith...
...believe that [Wiseman] was correct when heconcluded that the attorneys at the Office ofSpecial Investigations acted honestly and in goodfaith," Ryan said. "It is very painful to see thatthe court of appeals has taken a view of theevents in this case that is so at odds with what Ibelieve the evidence before [Wiseman] showed...
...That's just not correct," Reardon said. "The job has not been offered. A decision has not been made...
...workshop's goal, to make music. He discussed his pieces and performed them expertly on the piano, explaining that "form is not preset." This essentially meant that one could have free reign to play the notes in any tempo, rhythm, style or anything, as long as the correct pitches are used in the right sequence. All very heady stuff, but what was the musical result...