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Should freedom of speech accept speech against liberal values? Such as hate speech?
From the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaimed by the
United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948:
Article 19: Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and
expression; ...
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Should freedom of speech accept speech against liberal values? Such as hate speech?
Freedom of speech is already abridged by laws on defamation, copyright infringement, national security, contempt of court etc. So the principle is already established that freedom of speech is not ...
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Should freedom of speech accept speech against liberal values? Such as hate speech?
No. The question is analogous to freedom of movement. I am entitled to move as I like, but with a very large number of conventional constraints. I cannot use my freedom of movement to break into your ...
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Should freedom of speech accept speech against liberal values? Such as hate speech?
If the term hate speech had been around in the 1930's, you can bet your last dollar that anything supportive or defensive of Jewish people would have received that label under the Nazi regime.
The ...
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On a reductionist/functionalist account of consciousness, would we have ethical obligations toward robots?
If robots achieve (human-level) consciousness, we likely wouldn't have a good differentiating criteria between human and robot for ethical consideration.
On a related note, vegans argue that we don't ...
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On a reductionist/functionalist account of consciousness, would we have ethical obligations toward robots?
This is easy to approach with the proper definitions.
Morals are a set of rules which improve social interactions (for multiple goals, for example, survival: it is not moral to kill because it reduces ...
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Is nationalism ethical?
Your question contains several questions. I'm not sure I can answer all of them, but let's give it a go.
Firstly, ethical has a meaning given to it by humans. What is considered ethical varies from ...
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Does every nation on Earth have a right to exist or do only peaceful nations have a right to exist?
The expression “to have a right” can be misleading. Because juridical obligations and juridical rights are not discovered like a law of nature or like a treasure in the earth. Juridical obligations ...
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Should freedom of speech accept speech against liberal values? Such as hate speech?
Questions about law and policy are questions about compulsion by the threat of violence.
The related question about moral permissibility has an obvious answer. You should not say morally wrong things. ...
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When is war justified? Is defence of national sovereignty a sufficient moral justification?
Just War theory is a well established area of philosophy. See eg. Just War Theory (IEP), War (SEP), Just War Theory (Wikipedia). The way you've framed your question seems to just be asking for ...
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When is war justified? Is defence of national sovereignty a sufficient moral justification?
No, how can it always be right? Suppose a nation armed only with five pea shooters declares war on another country, which in return defensively nukes the aggressor nation, leaving not a single ...
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Ethics of involuntary participation in an unethical hegemony
You cite some good examples. If you look at Das Kapital by Karl Marx, you can see that it is implicit that the worker is forced to participate in the capitalist system. They are metaphorically in ...
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What did Robert Nozick mean by "subjunctive information"?
As @Conifold points out in comments, this is basically defined in the next few words.
Subjunctive information =
what would have occurred (or a probability distribution over what might have occurred, ...
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What did Robert Nozick mean by "subjunctive information"?
The subjunctive is a mood in grammar. The subjunctive is common in Latin and in romance languages, but rare in English. It is more usual in English to use auxiliary verbs such as would, could, and ...
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What do philosophers say about vegetarianism and non-vegetarianism?
I'd recommend the works of Peter Singer, who has written extensively on this topic (e.g., Moral Status of Animals).
In general, animals are not held to be moral/ethical agents regardless of what they ...
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What is the moral difference between saving a life and creating a life?
Why do existing persons take precedence over potential people
There are likely many philosophers who speak to this in the areas of morality, ethics, and theology.
One place where this is central is ...
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Is there any idea of goodness which is absolute?
Goodness is a quality ascribed by humans, so what one person considers good another might not. Lenient treatment of slaves, for example, with only token thrashings, might have been considered good at ...
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Does every nation on Earth have a right to exist or do only peaceful nations have a right to exist?
Self-determination, is what gives every nation on Earth the right to exist.
Conflicts and wars between nations arise in history as part of their evolution. Saying that a nation does not have the right ...
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Does every nation on Earth have a right to exist or do only peaceful nations have a right to exist?
For the sake of argument, I'll assume you hold to a moral principle that respects a human's right to life, with the caveat that this right is suspended if you point a gun at someone. This could come ...
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Is Ethics essentially the same as Utilitarianism?
How could all ethical questions be reduced to subquestions of, "What makes for the greatest good for the greatest number?" or, "What maximizes the sum of intrinsic value now and through ...
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Is Ethics essentially the same as Utilitarianism?
I think the thrust of your thinking is right- we have inherited a sense of what is ethical or moral through evolution, so presumably it helped increase our chances of survival. Perhaps there are two ...
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Does childism influence evolution of humans?
On how youthful characters can help propel biological evolution, you may wish to check the concept of neoteny, which describes how new species can appear by retaining in adults traits previously seen ...
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What did Robert Nozick mean by "subjunctive information"?
I like to think of subjunctive as any claim that can be prefaced "Were it that...". Were it that slavery had been abolished before the US Constitution was ratified. Were it that women were ...
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Is there any idea of goodness which is absolute?
In the context of European philosophy the first answer which comes to mind is Plato’s concept of the Form of the Good. In his work “The Republic (politeia)”, Plato does not give a definion but ...
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What would be the requirements for constructing an ethical calculus?
Ethics can be framed as a decision problem. You have various options A, B, C ... and need to determine which one of these is "best". This is the framework of Mathematical Optimization or ...
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Should freedom of speech accept speech against liberal values? Such as hate speech?
Never consider the love speech or hate speech as permanent. Freedom of speech is impermanent. Freedom of speech arises , changes and vanishes. Freedom of speech is not absolute in time and space. ...
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Should freedom of speech accept speech against liberal values? Such as hate speech?
As you allude to, I don't know if it's clear that the proposed scenario is a clear-cut example. In the United States, people protest against the existence of LGBT+ people all the time, and they are ...
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