Eli Harman:
It’s very simple.
The bullshitters can bullshit faster than you can shovel. So if you don’t want to drown in the stuff, you had better make them stop.
Free speech was a nifty idea. It didn’t work.
People can make war upon you, your freedom and your property with verbalisms, moralisms, pseudoscience, sophistry, shame, obscurantism, loaded questions, false framing, and 101 other kinds of lies.
When you catch them at it, punish them.
When people do violence to you with their words, do violence to them.