This isn't much different from what I've discussed in other texts on the same topic. But here, I'll reinforce this thought more specifically. While I'm not in favor of further institutionalizing opinion censorship, this doesn't mean I'm in favor of no limits or controls at all, but rather that they be established based on a clearer definition of what constitutes an opinion that truly surpass all rationally acceptable limits. And, at least when it comes to opinions about groups, the element that distinguishes and highlights a completely execrable opinion, both intellectually and morally, is absolute dehumanization, as if all individuals belonging to a given group, especially if it's a vaguely defined group, were all the same in a completely negative, defamatory, and condemnatory sense...
For example: when a church pastor says that "all gays will go to hell for being gay," that's not the same as if any individual, who could also be an evangelical pastor, expresses a more critical opinion about this or that group without making such absolute and dehumanizing generalizations. Because, an objectively execrable opinion, not only simply being what it is, but can also easily extrapolate the abstract and manifest itself as an action or behavior.
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