>> I'm pretty sure that intelligence and even education are not infallible antidotes to what we
>> categorise as radicalisation. They certainly don't seem to inoculate people against religion.
Which has always puzzled me. My wife is very well educated, but is very, very, Catholic. Its her belief, and I'm certainly not going to criticise it, but I don't really understand how the two go together.On the rare occasions I have asked, I get some 'stuff' about belief surpassing knowledge or something like that.
But if you take some views that one hears in here, often from well educated and intelligent people, that also makes no sense to me. Not because I disagree with them, which is neither here not there, but because they have no logic, no sense and no chance of being really true.
Rather leads me to believe that intelligence and education can go so far, but experience can outweigh both.
>> As for free speech - if that means the right to say whatever you want,
>> whenever you want, wherever you want, and to whomever you want - it doesn't exist
>> and never has.
Strictly, no. But to the extent that it does not unreasonably infringe on the rights of others, then I think it pretty much does exist in the UK.
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