> Because everything is propaganda, either everything should be allowed or everything should be banned?
How are either of those things worse than let's ban this propaganda but allow that propaganda? Is propaganda only bad if you happen to 'disagree' with it (ie not be as extensively indoctrinated by it)?
> Because you lose faith in everything.
Including, according to your argument, propaganda from who you think (because of propaganda) are on your side.
Propaganda from what is supposed to be your own side is actually, if anything, more repugnant and indefensible than 'enemy' propaganda.
> Even if your own govt. spies on you, stopping the propaganda of a foreign country takes precedence at all costs, if necessary, even by war.
So when your own country, while not spying on you, spreads propaganda in another country, you think it's totally understandable if that other country starts a war over it?
> So when your own country, while not spying on you, spreads propaganda in another country, you think it's totally understandable if that other country starts a war over it?
Yes. In today's world where mis-information and propaganda can topple governments and wreak havoc in societies, it's imperative that a destructive act of propaganda be seen akin to an actual act of war.
How are either of those things worse than let's ban this propaganda but allow that propaganda? Is propaganda only bad if you happen to 'disagree' with it (ie not be as extensively indoctrinated by it)?
> Because you lose faith in everything.
Including, according to your argument, propaganda from who you think (because of propaganda) are on your side.
Propaganda from what is supposed to be your own side is actually, if anything, more repugnant and indefensible than 'enemy' propaganda.
> Even if your own govt. spies on you, stopping the propaganda of a foreign country takes precedence at all costs, if necessary, even by war.
So when your own country, while not spying on you, spreads propaganda in another country, you think it's totally understandable if that other country starts a war over it?