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> Is that scary? Yes. Because making other people's beliefs illegal is the first step towards forcibly supplying your own.

• gambiting 11y ago
  Well.....Hitler should have been and in fact was forcibly stopped from practicing his beliefs. In my mind, people who walk in front of Auschwitz with swastikas on their flags and shout how X minority should be exterminated also should be stopped. Those people should be forcibly supplied other beliefs, just like rapists are forcibly put into prison and forced to accept a different set of rules from their own.
  • ryandvm 11y ago
    And what about atheists' beliefs in a country largely populated by theists? How should we treat them? It's easy to say that you think that speech that is almost universally repugnant should be illegal. The problem is that the benefit from doing so does not outweigh the risk that some day you may hold a socially repugnant belief of your own and find yourself legally silenced.
  • shkkmo 11y ago
    "people who walk in front of Auschwitz with swastikas on their flags and shout how X minority should be exterminated also should be stopped." This is hate speech and is illegal in the US. In the US we draw a line between holding beliefs (or owning swastikas) and public hate speech or other illegal acts. This is similar to how it is not illegal to be a racist, but it is (often) illegal to discriminate.
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