by Fabrizio d’Agostini — Five association acronyms that state in their very name that their purpose is the defense of the victims of psychological abuses, have recently re-proposed, in a letter sent to some authorities, an “old” moan from the 1970s (mind war in the USA) about the lack of State’s attention to the spread of “pernicious conspiracy theories and pseudo-scientific beliefs” by “controversial aggregations” “that attack the fundamental rights of individuals and undermine democratic society itself” and it seems aimed at suggesting the appropriateness of greater institutional attention to the phenomenon and the appropriateness of the adoption of preventive measures (as recently adopted in France).
One must read the text by reversing the arguments: the associations would like more attention and preventive measures from the State, and these demands, far from strengthening a democratic society, would be a diminution of the individual’s freedoms and a consequent diminution of democracy (also, infra).
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