First, I like certain science fiction. So, I was watching a Terminator episode. In this episode, the cyborg, beautiful and lithely played by Summer Glau, using the extra powers of analysis and perception granted these future bots, informed a young man in a wheel chair that his bone cancer had returned. Seemingly, no emotion, just a communication of information, believed in her "chip" to be useful to the person, and communicated accurately, clinically, and pointedly.
Compare you run of the mill, new fascist, humanist. This brand (is there another?) of relativism sets great store by non-offensive conduct where they prefer speech auditors and mind police to prevent any group from being criticized, labeled or profiled. If they can't control what you think, so as to conform with their heightened intellect and compassion, they will control what you say. It matters not if any of it conforms to facts, proven knowledge or thousands of years of experience, it must be quashed.
Interesting, to see how we survive when form is elevated so far above substance that meaningful communications are proscribed or at least limited, so that everyone feels good - presumably at least everyone except the victims of the warlords, and dictators they find quaint, and the unborn children who are either convenient or not. When will this logic be expanded to allow the elimination of those, already born who are just an annoyance, or even a burden?
We already see that, once the refuge of honest free thought, college campuses, have become militant conformist. Can stifling those who disagree or have an objectionable, lead to any progress?
