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> you have no right to denigrate your fellow man Of course you do. Can you imagine what the world would be like if the government gave itself the power and cre
by Veen 6y ago
> you have no right to denigrate your fellow man
Of course you do. Can you imagine what the world would be like if the government gave itself the power and created the bureaucratic machinery to stop people denigrating their fellow man? It would be a dystopian nightmare.
- illirik 6y agoThere's a difference between "you shouldn't do hate speech" and some sort of 1984/V-for-Vendetta mechanism to ensure that nobody ever does hate speech. Laws and ethics are not the same thing.
- hansbo 6y agoDefamation is illegal in plenty of non-dystopian countries.
- manigandham 6y agoThere's a difference between defamation and denigration. You're allowed to criticize anything, but if you knowingly publish lies, especially maliciously, then it crosses the line.
- hansbo 6y agoThere is a difference, but there are countries where it is illegal despite it being true. Sweden is an example of this.
- pineaux 6y agoI don't see a government censoring this book. Is it illegal to have this book? Should I now force barnes and noble to sell my radical insurrectionist anarchist zines? They are gagging my right to free speech!
- Veen 6y agoYou seem to have responded to the wrong comment. Either that or you decided my comment was a good opportunity to spew some irrelevant gibberish.
- base698 6y agoWould be?