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Sinergy -> RE: EU aims to criminalise Holocaust denial (4/20/2007 7:17:07 PM)
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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania
Education is the way to stop holocaust denial. I am strongly against legislating intelligence and beliefs. People should believe anything they like and allowed to disseminate that belief. To me it is tyrannical to keep people from believing what they would like even if it is wrong headed. It reminds me of 1984, who decides which thoughts are crimes, and which ones aren't? And since when was it decided that thinking is dangerous? There are people that think 9-11 was an inside job, should this be a crime? It is dangerous thinking to some people.
On a related note, most of modern psychiatry is built on the foundation started by Freud.
Of course, what we have today is built on the attempt to disprove Freud.
Does this mean Freud was wrong? Sure. But if he was silenced it would have prevented researchers from studying psychology and prevent the passing of knowledge on to the next generation.
To me, that is idiotic. This guy stands up on a box in a town square in Munich and rants about there not being a holocaust. Maybe 25 people go home and research it and go to museums and learn about it. Maybe five of them shave their heads and stomp around singing Neo-Nazi drivel. Maybe one goes on to become a social anthropologist specializing in human genocide.
They might all be wrong. I am trying to remember which holocaust denier it was who went out to disprove it ever happened, and after researching he realized his former position was was idiotic. Now he lectures about both the holocaust and the danger of denying it.
Sinergy
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