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Pointing out the psychology of moral licensing is insightful, but are you really making the case that we should be compassionate and empathetic when disagreeing? Just seeking clarification, you're not proposing that those who do not show compassion and empathy for those they disagree with should be censured?

I read your piece on Ghost on Popper's paradox of intolerance, a smart idea.

You highlighted UN Women which in late 2023 posted a tweet mourning the deaths of women and children in Gaza without any mention of the Israeli women raped and murdered by Hamas just weeks earlier. Did they need to? Is that physically possible in as short a space as a tweet? Let's suppose they did have the space, how is the mourning of Gazan deaths the intolerance that Popper says should be no-platformed? The link you gave does not go to what UN Women said, do you still have the exact words of the tweet?

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