DISQUS

Figo · 3 years ago

Nice point. I'm afraid the notion of servitude is so deeply cut into the psyche of religious people, that they tend to subject everything and everyone to it. That's why she can write something as disturbing as "Freedom of speech is not absolute. It has to be in service of something, like peace or social justice." Disturbing because once you believe that any person's freedom is dependant upon some external, abstract idea like peace or social justice, you risk being forced to accept, down the line, ideals that are less "positive" in nautre - what is the Jihad if not a systematic opposition of any freedom that opposes and threatens the Muslim ideal?

Rogel · 3 years ago

This is a good point, however this attitude isn't limited to religious people. I saw they same attitude coming from the left under the belief that freedom (or anything as a meter of fact) should serve social justice (which it shouldn't)