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> movies, cop dramas, video games fiction > Trump not fiction How is this even a question? Fictional narratives and real-life actions are incomparable > Sh

> movies, cop dramas, video games fiction > Trump not fiction How is this even a question? Fictional narratives and real-life actions are incomparable > Should we ban tweets linking to bail funds for arrested protesters since that's "glorifying" breaking the law? If they were encouraging violence, yes. They weren't encouraging violence, they were encouraging civil disobedience. Destruction of property and assault on individuals are incomparable. > Should we ban commercials for fast food and high sugar products since they glorify unhealthy lifestyles and are a "public health risk"? Well, we've banned commercials for cigarettes. Lots of countries ban commercials for alcohol. But I would assume you would be against this too, and here I will actually agree with you. This one is a spectrum. If an adult human being wants to make the conscious informed choice to assault their own body (with drugs, or alcohol, or sugar), we should let them. What we shouldn't do is target commercials at children that are not fully formed enough to make their own decisions. Which is what most of restrictions about fast food and high sugar products are focused on.

NE2z2T9qi 6y ago
As I say elsewhere, I could just as easily use your empty standard to ban tweets saying “A riot is the language of the unheard.” This quote sympathetically explains rioting as a consequence of oppression—and it’s a quote I largely agree with. And yet people as easily triggered as you may seek to have MLK banned since the quote serves as justification/apologetics/glorification of rioting—-a definitionally violent and illegal act. And if you want to play these games about particulars, replace war movie with war documentary. Are you satisfied now? Shall we ban war documentaries which may glorify violence?
- deanCommie 6y ago
  Documentaries by definition should be DOCUMENTING reality not glorifying it. War documentaries that glorify violence are propaganda. We shouldn't ban them, but we should contain them the way we contain all propaganda - study it's means to an end, and contain it. I'm pro rioting. I don't know why you think I'm triggered. Rioting isn't promoting violence. There is also a question of instigation. Person A: Punches person B in the face Person B: Punches person A back in return. These actions are not equivalent. A instigated. B defended. A is being violent. B is not. Person B: Destroys person A's property Person A: Punches person B in the face These actions are not equivalent. Person B did not perpetuate violence. They instigated, but A did not defend - they escalated from property damage to personal damage. B is not being violent. A is. This ain't rocket science.
  - NE2z2T9qi 6y ago
    So you’re just trolling, is that right? You’re claiming that you’re deeply upset about a vague Trump tweet and need it to be banned to protect your innocent mind, but you’re openly advocating literal random violence. Ok, comrade.
  - f1refly 6y ago
    Great, so I'll come and burn your house down. I've got nothing to fear, since you obviously won't try to physically stop me. That'd be bad. And you're not bad, are you?

NE2z2T9qi 6y ago

As I say elsewhere, I could just as easily use your empty standard to ban tweets saying “A riot is the language of the unheard.” This quote sympathetically explains rioting as a consequence of oppression—and it’s a quote I largely agree with. And yet people as easily triggered as you may seek to have MLK banned since the quote serves as justification/apologetics/glorification of rioting—-a definitionally violent and illegal act. And if you want to play these games about particulars, replace war movie with war documentary. Are you satisfied now? Shall we ban war documentaries which may glorify violence?

deanCommie 6y ago
Documentaries by definition should be DOCUMENTING reality not glorifying it. War documentaries that glorify violence are propaganda. We shouldn't ban them, but we should contain them the way we contain all propaganda - study it's means to an end, and contain it. I'm pro rioting. I don't know why you think I'm triggered. Rioting isn't promoting violence. There is also a question of instigation. Person A: Punches person B in the face Person B: Punches person A back in return. These actions are not equivalent. A instigated. B defended. A is being violent. B is not. Person B: Destroys person A's property Person A: Punches person B in the face These actions are not equivalent. Person B did not perpetuate violence. They instigated, but A did not defend - they escalated from property damage to personal damage. B is not being violent. A is. This ain't rocket science.
- NE2z2T9qi 6y ago
  So you’re just trolling, is that right? You’re claiming that you’re deeply upset about a vague Trump tweet and need it to be banned to protect your innocent mind, but you’re openly advocating literal random violence. Ok, comrade.
- f1refly 6y ago
  Great, so I'll come and burn your house down. I've got nothing to fear, since you obviously won't try to physically stop me. That'd be bad. And you're not bad, are you?