Suchian Musings And Ramblings About General Designs Involving Notable Estuaries
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I usually take a more practical argument that results in the same conclusion, which is that:
1. Suppressing someone's opinions can cause resentment, which makes people dig in to those opinions, making them stronger. This is a big risk if they are problematic ("evil" as you say). In contrast, allowing someone to air their grievances before they turn virulent, and helping them resolve those grievances, is key to defusing situations.
2. Suppressing the expression of opinions one doesn't like can make one less aware of people's opinions and thus the social context of things. This becomes really important in political/policy topics.
Basically, better to let people express themselves and then actually have a discussion with them, even if it's tedious, than force them to bottle it up and give them a reason to hate you.
And this would exist on a scale from absolutism to relativism.
"Disapprove of", is not quite fully relativist, as the speaker allows himself or herself the ability or right to disapprove, but not to act on such disapproval.
"Disagree with", is more relativist, and thus fits in more with the second half.
just in case you didn't know
I listened to the organ concerts held by the LDS church.
I hear it's one of the world's biggest organs.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Mormon genealogies are good enough for ~science~
As for my mom's family, they missed the Mayflower, somebody has a castle, and my great-great-great-grandmother was an Irish Catholic from the North who divorced her husband and is apparently descended from at least one High King of Tara.