Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.
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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.
In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.
Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.
A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
You'll often hear the left lecture about the importance of dissent in a free society.
Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.
Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
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.
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