Should all beliefs be tolerated?

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VGPolyglot said:

Puppyroach said:

So you mean to forbid a person to, for example, say that he/she is a nazi (but the person can still think it)? So basically a totalitarian society that acts as if, as lo g as people don't say what they think, everything is fine? That is how you breed ignorance in every society. The best thing is if people express their opinion, no matter how we think of them, and then we get a chance to oppose them. That way we practice critical thinking and rationality. Forbidding opinion is how Christianity for hundreds of years kept the rational discussion out of society...

What I'm saying that if doesn't say that he's a Nazi, we can't do anything about because we wouldn't know that he's a Nazi. It'd be fine and dandy if we could let Nazis say their views and just get on with our day with nothing happening, but as we saw with World War II, letting Nazis grow and fester doesn't turn out well.

And seeing what happened in Soviet Union, letting communists grow and fester doesn't turn out well. And Yugoslavia. And Cuba. And Spain. And...

But looking at WW2 and western capitalism, UK, USA, W. Germany, it's pretty clear which system have been the best.