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I might prefer living in a dictatorship to living in a democracy as long as I got to be the dictator. However, I don't expect to become the dictator, so in practice, I support democracy. Similarly, in a society that has several religions, you might prefer that there be a state mandated religion as long as it's yours, but support freedom of religion because you don't want to run the risk of being on the receiving end of religious persecution rather than the giving end. I suspect "thoughtcrime" will largely go the same way.

(Amusing bit of trivia: the story of how the Puritans came to America in search of religious freedom is almost the exact opposite of the truth: they had religious freedom in the Netherlands, and they hated it. They came to America in order to make a society in which THEIR religion was the ONLY religion.)

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Just write down "Klingon", it's the only way to end the race box madness.

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