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The importance of diversity
Uniformity makes a system fragile. Biological diversity is protected for a lot of… reasonable reasons. Aversion to inbreeding, besides being embodied in human customs, is part of the instinctive behaviour of most animals.
Diversity allows a species to increase its odds of survival under varying conditions. Historically, real pandemics have decimated large parts of humanity. Those with the appropriate genes have survived.
I believe that what holds true in biology is also applicable to the world of ideas: every belief/system is vulnerable to new ideas/information that challenge it. Each belief/system develops mechanisms of self defense in order to protect itself from “pathogenic” ideas that threaten it. One of these is, of course, censorship.
But none of these protections is foolproof. A few illustrative examples:
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Monarchy was overthrown by the ideas of “lumières”.
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Communism was overthrown by liberal ideas.
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Religions were overthrown by materialism.
Each of these examples can be debated, but there are many others. The point remains: preserving diversity is a guarantee of sustainability. By now, this would probably be the ultimate justification for PeerStorage.