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Only because your words caused actionable harm. If you didn't intend to cause harm and there were no harmful consequences should you still be punished?
by ng12 7y ago
Only because your words caused actionable harm. If you didn't intend to cause harm and there were no harmful consequences should you still be punished?
- joshuamorton 7y agoShould drunk driving be legal as long as you don't crash?
- ng12 7y agoDrunk driving has a reasonably high likelihood of physical harm, as does yelling "fire" in a crowded theatre. Posting opinions about current events on a message board is not likely to cause physical harm.
- joshuamorton 7y agoWhat Stallman did isn't illegal. So some legal standard of likelyhood of physical harm need not apply. But I dispute your claim that rape apologia by an authority figure is unlikely to cause harm.
- ng12 7y agoIt was the grandparent's example, not mine. Also, I dispute your characterization as "rape apologia". It's a fairly ironic description given RMS's original issue was mischaracterization of the issue in the media.