<< Belegost, thanks for stating your concerns in an intelligent and interested manner. It's refreshing to see somebody with cogent questions. I don't know if I can state it better, but I'll try.
In the first place, as complex social animals, we make judgments for other people all the time. We make them for our children, we advise adults through education, etc. Amused there wants to force us to adopt a hands off approach to censorship and who knows, might even try to inforce it if he were dictator for a day. We make suggestions for what's good at the restaurant and so on and so forth. We are constantly influencing each other through our opinions and experience. You could see the world as on the back of the dollar. The pyramid with the seeing eye. It's just a bell curve representing knowledge. Those who have it see, and also see who else sees. It is an inescapable fact that life deals out wisdom in different proportions just as Amused claims that abilities and therefore pay are differentiated by their rarity. The unrecognized fact is, however, that knowledge is compulsive. It is given from those who have it to those who don't. As I said, real knowledge is accompanied by love. Love is unstoppable. It can't be turned off by formulae or theories of behavior. If for any reason love demands censorship, the lover will censor. The question as to how to define hate speach, for example, is a question for those who aren't in love. The lover IS and hate is a form of nonbeing instantly and instinctively reconizable to one who IS. The lover obeys no law but the law of love. Action is instantaneous and without thought or analysis. Theory is for the mind. The lover heart has wings. All the blather about the danger of fascism is just nonsense generated by the unreliable nature of those who project that fear. The lover can have no ego. He is not a danger, therefore, in the ordinary sense of the word. His actions are from knowledge out of love. Look out for the kiss.
Edit: I just came from WombatWoman's thread. Some POS make a remark in there filled with stupidity and animosity. A masterpiece of bad taste. The mods nuked his entire post. Congratulations to him or her for an act of appropriate kindness. >>
Never has so much meant so little, and been so wrong.
Moonie, do you ever come straight to the point? Or is your whole life's purpose to baffle the ignorant with bullsh!t?
You claim the elite have the duty (and right) to control the unwashed masses because the masses don't know any better, can't control themselves, and can't discern good outside influences from bad. Oh, and because the elite love them, even if the elite don't think the masses love them, or themselves.
In short, you want Big Mother, not Big Brother.
This is the short version of that million word spin of yours.
It is, on it's face, so ridiculous, it doesn't even require a reply...
Good gawd man, what ever it is you're smoking, pass some this way.