I would merely add that for them, there is no downsides. For them, the war is against certain people,
rather than against certain ideas.

Or, to put it another way, the ideas held by certain people are to be considered wrong by definition. Ideas promulgated by those people are wrong, if only because it's those people promulgating them. Logic is redundant here and they understand this fully, whereas you may not.



Quote Originally Posted by Monty92 View Post
I may share a (theoretical) commitment to secularism with liberals, but unlike liberals I can see the downsides.