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Cultures sometimes develop, believe it or not, without examining the rationality of a cultural norm. The short answer is 'that's the culture'.

• Danihan 9y ago
  Exactly. You could rewrite that for any cultural norm. "I legitimately don't understand the odd obsession outside the US with banning guns. Do you arbitrarily categorize certain tools as 'bad,' then you ban such tools in a lot of everyday circumstances, and therefore such tools are made pointless." It's even funnier, because in most countries hate speech is a criminal offense. The US has the least censoring of speech of any country I know of.
  • dom0 9y ago
    > because in most countries hate speech is a criminal offense. Typically the standards are different from what seems to be called "hate speech" in the US. Though there are some odd laws around that should really just be removed.
  • walshemj 9y ago
    Well in the UK it was mostly a panic over he general strike in 1926 that started the restrictions on the right to self defence (derived from common law)