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4328828 No.4328828 [Reply] [Original]

>Monsieur l'abbe, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.
Voltaire. Pic related.

Hey guys, let's just live by his word, ok ?

>> No.4328835

you mean i have to take a bullet for dan brown?

>> No.4328836

>>4328835
Wat.

>> No.4328845

>>4328836
i detest what he writes, yet OP seems to think i should die for him

>> No.4328846

Didn't he say there were no witches to burn since they'd stopped burning witches?

>> No.4328848
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4328848

Voltaire <> a scientist
/pol/ is that way ------>

>> No.4328853

The problem with the sentiment Voltaire put forward is that falls apart completely as soon as one person decides to not do it. Real life is not some Disney story where the pacifist convinces all of the aggressive Bad Guys to put their weapons down through his superior examples.

>> No.4328860

"The witches have stopped to exist when we have stopped to burn them" (Voltaire)

killyourself.jpg

>> No.4328865

>>4328853

The sentiment is not pacifist, it's pro freedom of speech. There's a huge difference.

>> No.4328878

>>4328845
Well, you should be ready to sacrifice yourself to allow Dan Brown to keep on writing if some dictator wants to forbid fiction books, for example.

>>4328860
He was a boss of irony.