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RE: A response to @ats-david's post on ostracizing on steemit... flaws, loopholes..
I'll give you an example. More we fight drugs, more drug related problems we have. Replace word drugs with: terrorism, immigration, obesity, family violence. You pick the word.
Yep. We cannot fight FREEDOM with force. We must fight using reason and information. You cannot force a person not to do something and expect them to mentally agree it was the right thing. We can only provide information and hopefully persuade people through the use of reason.
I guess I shouldn't say ONLY. There are certain things we can get an expected reaction. We can talk in certain ways about trigger subjects like race, religion, climate change, vaccines, etc and get hostile divide and conquer type reactions from most of the population, but that is not really what either you or I are referring to I think.