If you can just convince the dope people that the gun people are right and the gun people that the dope people are right, we could actually live in a lot more freedom.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker suggests that convincing opposing groups that the other side is correct could increase freedom.
- In plain terms
- If you get both sides to agree the other is right, freedom rises.
- What can you take from it?
- Seek mutual understanding to enhance liberty.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Can true freedom arise from paradoxical agreement?
- What are the limits of this approach?
Another view
Mutual agreement on opposing views may be unrealistic.
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