Satan is a fascist who wanted us to be forced to be good rather than free. Basically he had a solution that was a competition to God's.
Free will is an inseperable from sentience.
If we had no free will we would hurt each other much more because we wouldn't be able to stop it.
Submitting to God's will is uniting our will with His to the extent He needs us to. He doesn't care what is our favorite food only that we resist our own tendencies.
I value StumbleUpon as an alternative news source. Several have bemoaned the need for StumbleUpon to isolate themselves from market pressures (in defense of open forums). I agree that our statements are a passive form of news gathering, given we report opinions and "discoveries". But it has also been postulated that Free Press cannot exist in a society with monopolistic manufacturing. Our tolerance of monopoly (i.e. Microsoft who was judged a monopoly but is still monolithic) allows the pooling of advertising investment beyond the diversity needed to fund a diverse gambit of news sources. Therefore, the suggestions that these problems will be solved through appeals to StumbleUpon itself are naive and somewhat lazy. Organize and complain to StumbleUpon's advertisers, or with an even longer term solution, complain about StumbleUpon's monopolistic advertisers.
The thing about censorship is that while it may occasionally successfully hide a few disagreements, a more common result is to make people angry.
On the small issues some of the threads that get locked due to disagreement leave a really nasty taste with all those who watched the argument get stifled, not just the participants. On a larger scale when certain people or specific ideas are censored the anger gets expressed and displaced in all sorts ways. When people feel devalued they tend to get nasty.
76 - Especially if a user is generarally amiable.
This is the internet here. We sit in front our computers, good day or bad, drunk or sober, and for many of us it a great vent for ideas, thoughts, opinions, comedy, etc.
I understand the censorship of unnecessary explatives, of which I am guilty at times, but censorship of debate or conversation rather defeats the purpose of groups colored with polarized viewpoints.
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