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> It is perfectly legal to offend people in Germany. No, wrong, it isn't. https://dejure.org/gesetze/StGB/183a.html https://dejure.org/gesetze/StGB/183a.html

by corty 5y ago

> It is perfectly legal to offend people in Germany. No, wrong, it isn't. https://dejure.org/gesetze/StGB/183a.html https://dejure.org/gesetze/StGB/183a.html https://dejure.org/gesetze/StGB/166.html https://dejure.org/gesetze/StGB/166.html Sexual and religious offense. Both predicated on someone being (even just possibly) offended. https://dejure.org/gesetze/StGB/185.html https://dejure.org/gesetze/StGB/185.html https://dejure.org/gesetze/StGB/188.html https://dejure.org/gesetze/StGB/188.html General offense, usually only prosecuted if the offended wants it (but the prosecutor has discretion to proceed without). Harsher punishments if the offended is a politician. https://dejure.org/gesetze/StGB/104.html https://dejure.org/gesetze/StGB/104.html Even just offending other states by burning flags is punishable. So you couldn't be more wrong. (I personally think those laws are BS and should be done away with.)

slg 5y ago
I don't know what your point is here. You are citing particular laws in which a party is likely to be offended like public sex, defamation, and desecration of a flag. But the crime isn't that offense was caused. That offense is the byproduct of the actual crime. Plus many of those are illegal in other countries too. You can't have public sex or defame people in the US either, but no one would say it is illegal to offend people.