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Re: Hansen: Denying Global Warming should be Illegal

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Originally Posted by SMadsen View Post
No, it simply means there is a limit to the justification of the means to a goal.

For example, if the goal is to sell cigarettes, deliberate lies about the effects of smoking are not necessarily justified means to such a goal.
Not the same thing at all. It is nearly unanimously accepted fact that smoking causes cancer. Even then, it should never be a crime to disagree with fact. You might remember the last time they did that, when Galileo was locked up for saying the Earth went around the Sun. Do we want to return to those times?
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