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[–] bastion@feddit.nl 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Education and human relation. Standing your ground in a conversation without getting combative. Being ~~winning~~ willing to fight if needed, but actively choosing not to when it's not truly necessary.

No, if you exterminate an ideal, you also lose the resistance to it and the generational cognizance of it. Instead, you let it survive, and teach people, by example, how to deal with it - not through suppression, but through response.

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You just admitted my clause:

Being winning to fight of needed

No, if you exterminate an ideal, you also lose the resistance to it and the generational cognizance of it.

Yes, and it stops being relevant. Just like every dictatorial regime that has been put down.

[–] bastion@feddit.nl -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I did not "admit your clause". Being willing to fight does not necessitate extermination.

Although, perhaps you're right, and I should adopt your ideology of ideological extermination, starting with your ideology.

No, if you exterminate an ideal, you also lose the resistance to it and the generational cognizance of it.

Yes, and it stops being relevant. Just like every dictatorial regime that has been put down.

Oh, is that what you think happens? Go live it, then, and good luck with that.

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I will not abide intellectual dishonestly.

You are hereby cast out from my internet experience for all time.

[–] bastion@feddit.nl 1 points 3 months ago