{"id":7733,"date":"2014-08-29T10:34:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T10:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/08\/29\/mockery\/"},"modified":"2014-08-29T10:34:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T10:34:07","slug":"mockery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/08\/29\/mockery\/","title":{"rendered":"Mockery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I just heard Dennis Prager say that he never mocks his ideological opponents.&#0160; If I had his ear, I would put to him the question, &quot;Do think there are no conceivable circumstances in which mockery of an ideological opponent is morally justified?&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">If he answered in the affirmative, then I would press him on how this comports with his conviction that there are circumstances in which the use of physical violence against human beings is morally justified.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I would urge that if the latter is morally justified, and it is, then the former, a sort of verbal violence, is morally justified. 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