But we are a democracy, imperfect as it is, we have it, which allows for dissent.
If you conclude arguments with others by saying "Well, you must be stupid" or "You're just scared" you've succumbed to the temptation to bully others, rather than keeping good perspective and allowing for dissent.
Space for irreverence allows for dissenting voices and prevents abuse from those in power.
Should Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the murdered six million, be reconfigured to allow for "debate or dissent" about the Holocaust itself and Israeli domestic politics?
The antagonism for Arendt is between rational truth and well-grounded opinion, since the former does not allow for debate and dissent, while the latter thrives on it.
"The English … watch the heaving, whirling mass of foreign humanity around them, a vortex that allows for no dissent, that relegates the token hundred-odd Real Madrid fans to the most isolated heights of the Camp Nou … the hum of the crowd is overwhelming, its fanaticism disquieting".
This must be, I believe, based on "hawks" allowing for the dissent upon which democracy is built, and it must be based upon "critics" recognizing that their credibility must be based on explicit support for the State of Israel.
According to the Human Rights Watch World Report 2014, torture remains commonplace and it has broad laws that allow for the suppression of free speech, dissent and freedom of assembly and religion.
Even groups of experts work properly only when they allow space for dissenting voices to be considered.
This would allow for the possibility that Democrats, along with dissenting Republicans, would vote in Democrat Dick Gephardt as Speaker.
