And without the ability to defend one's own viewpoint, against other perhaps more aggressive ideologies, then reasonableness and moderation could quite simply disappear.
10 seconds sound clip from the Monty Python's The Meaning of Life movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:49:15.699 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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[...]
- You better get the gate leg table, Hordern.
- Yes.
- Oh, and while you're at it, you'd better get a doily.
- I'll bring two, sir, in case one gets crumpled.
- Okay!
- But, of course, warfare isn't all fun.
- Right. Stop that. It's all very well to laugh at the military...
- That is why we'll always need an army. And may God strike me down were it to be otherwise.
- Don't stand there gawping, like you've never seen the hand of God before!
- Well? Anyone got anything they'd rather be doing, than marching up and down the square?
- Yes! Atkinson. What would you rather be doing, Atkinson?
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