Joe Shearer
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"short of bombing them into good sense" - values like democracy and freedom of speech and thought are "good sense" in some countries.
and in some countries.. any use of freedom of speech against religious figures is considered enough for death sentence (blasphemy) and that is "good sense" for the majority of the people in that particular country.
will you be able to convince the people believing in blasphemy by bombing them to "good sense"? do they even think that free speech is "good sense"?
I hope you can see my conundrum. the definition of "good" is made up by the majority (or by whoever in power). the rest have to either bend or be called "bad" and maybe punished.
Yes and no.
There are enough examples, the PRC, for instance, to pluck one out of the air, where minorities have forcefully changed the views of the majority. More later.