Quote: It was you who created chaos in their hearts and minds; it was you who egged them on to try all kinds of experiences and failed to warn them of the dangers involved. You are guilty and will be punished.
The quote that started this thread is one of the most offensive things I have ever read on A2K (and perhaps on the Internet).
Any progress, any worthy cause, any act of heroism anything of beauty come from ideas that challenge us.
Gandhi, Galileo, Darwin, Newton and Jesus Christ all have this in common. The ideas they expressed attacked the ways people thought and the beliefs they held dear. Do you want to equate this with "chaos".
The only way to improve, either as a society or as a human being, is to have our ideas and beliefs thrown into disarray. Human beings have a surprising way of emerging as better.
Sure there are evil ideas, but these are not dealt with if they are forced into the shadows where they can grow until they explode with force. Far better is to let evil ideas into the light where they can be examined and challenged.
For example, in the US, denying the Holocaust is legal. When it happens it is usually publically denounced. I believe that Holocaust denial is much less popular and much less of a problem then in Europe where it is punishable by law.
We are designed to have a very safe existance at one time in our lives- in the womb. Here we are protected and unchallenged. But this is not what life means as the Creator intended for us to be thrust into a world with evil, and hurt and insecurity but also beauty and valor.
I prefer the challenge. I have personally grown each time one of my deeply held beliefs was confronted with a powerful idea and I am grateful when this happens.
Many ideas in my community and in society need to be challenged. This is the only way for good to overcome evil. I do this as often as I can.