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> Hate-speech laws exist because people are programmable. And some people would like to have us programmed with their opinion unchallenged, rather than have t

> Hate-speech laws exist because people are programmable. And some people would like to have us programmed with their opinion unchallenged, rather than have their view face opposing arguments in a fair and open debate. Once you compromise on free speech for some views, it’s all a slippery down-hill slope from there.

streb-lo 7y ago
Once you allow someone to advertise murder as a solution to a problem it's all down-hill from there.
- 1000units 7y ago
  And yet you personally contribute funds to your nation's military, I presume.
  - 1000units 7y ago
    Who do we kill with that? Just who you say is okay? And we can't talk about it? Hmm, you know. I don't think I like this arrangement. It already seems like you don't like me.
1000units 7y ago
This is entirely correct. As rhetorical advice, I recommend against calling things a "slippery slope". This causes alarm bells to ring in a pedant's mind, and they frantically search Wikipedia's catalog of Fallacious Reasoning for an appropriate article to copy-paste or internally justify downvoting you instead of authentically engaging with the argument.