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James Bergen Plummer

Product at Warby Parker, formerly Hillary for America, formerly formerly Google.

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From Really? I am under the impression that the Nazis have been doing marches and rallies and even… by Ryder Spearmann
As Justice Louis Brandeis once explained, the Framers of our First Amendment knew “that fear breeds repression; that repression breeds hate; that hate menaces stable government; that the path of safety lies in the opportunity to discuss freely supposed grievances and proposed remedies; and that the fitting remedy for evil counsels is good ones.”
From Really? I am under the impression that the Nazis have been doing marches and rallies and even… by Ryder Spearmann
As someone far wiser than I said: Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
From How to be Rational about Rationality by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is therefore my opinion that religion is here to enforce tail risk management across generations, as its binary and unconditional rules are easy to teach and enforce. We have survived in spite of tail risks; our survival cannot be that random.

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