
And "let everyone else believe what they want to believe" is a way of saying "shut up", and strikes me as anti-rational. Opinions can't be literally forced down people's throats. The closest we can get is indoctrination, lying, and argument, and the last of those is a good thing, and it's what you're opposing here. Even when the argument only consists of futile back-and-forth yelling, it's still a marginally good thing.
Unless what you mean is "let everyone say what they want to say," in which case fair enough.
( , Sat 7 Feb 2009, 11:54, Reply)