Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
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I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.
Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.
Dissents speak to a future age.
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.
You'll often hear the left lecture about the importance of dissent in a free society.
Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
There's a tradition in the history of dissent in authoritarian countries of a certain kind of dissident, and their form of dissent is to live their lives as normally as possible.
In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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