padib said:
People use the word tin foil hat too easily. The videos on youtube share information that I'm intelligent enough to judge personally whether they hold a candle or not. And I think that ties what you and I are saying together. Ideas are shared, people should be open to ideas and learn to talk, instead of labelling the thoughts of others as idiotic or paranoid or what-have-you. Upon sharing of ideas, the best ideas (the hope is) should bubble up. Through sharing ideas, all ideas get challenged, hence allowing for the better ideas to survive, which thus leads to learning. |
One of the problem nowadays is that there is to much "ideas" that are shared and not enought facts. So yes education is better than just ideas sharing on youtube, chat or vgchartz. A real ideas discution should start with hard facts and the will to accept that what is considered to be the best ideas by many may be be proven false in the end. If you use your freedom of speech to preach for an idea based solely on belief, that you think that this idea is so good that everybody should believe in it no matter what, that idea becomes absolutism and is really dangerous to real freedom of speech based on facts and search of factual truth. For example, you have the right to say that you firmly believe that god created the universe, on the other hand you cannot state or force a belief with no facts and say that its true. Freedom of speech cannot be used to spread something false or a belief, that may be true but that cannot be proven as so, as if it was undisputed hard facts. Ideas sharing is not enough if no education and fact checking are included in the process.
In the end all rights comes with obligations, people tends to forget it.