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What should be the response to genuinely transgressive speech? What the title said. Ditto all the other examples you gave. You don't beat up somebody for bei

What should be the response to genuinely transgressive speech? What the title said. Ditto all the other examples you gave. You don't beat up somebody for being stupid. You don't kill somebody for advocating planar planetary physics. You don't beat up somebody even for advocating racial discrimination. (You don't "quietly demur", either. You respond with forceful denunciation and moral condemnation.) In this country, you don't beat up or kill someone for blasphemy. And in any country, you don't if you're a Christian. A Christian's orders are to love their enemies, do good to those who hate them, and pray for those that persecute them. I don't see "kill" anywhere in that.

sunscream89 1y ago
Thoughts feelings and beliefs are never enough to justify violence or murder. Truth and law before power (of one Man over another) however may be a different matter.
sunscream89 1y ago
I think often of that Will Smith slap. I still to this day do not have a condemning moral judgment yet as without hesitation we cannot condone such behavior. It was more than a slap, it was a battlefront of the American psyche. Here is Chris Rock on one side. I have to tell you my respect for him grew through the roof for his dude handling of the situation (every one else but him whimpered like injured children.) I have to say I never liked him or his style before, and have seen his smirks and honest to truth have thought “I wonder how far he will go until one day someone will smack that smile off his face.” I only let out this internal thought with the assertion that I do not believe provocation of pride is enough (though taunting to me is consensual violence.) In the other side is WILL SMITH Legend, defeats aliens or vampire zombies who come to fcuk with us, is the personification of dude heroism and will walk up on, before a million burning watching eyes. And take condescension of his woman right out of a man. Damn. We’re a culture of hot heads and those who trigger others by our exhibitions. That’s America. A part of that anyway. Boo on you Mr. Will Smith that can’t be how we end it, though the split reaction speaks of the super consciousness among us feeding back into our super psyche of selves.

sunscream89 1y ago

Thoughts feelings and beliefs are never enough to justify violence or murder. Truth and law before power (of one Man over another) however may be a different matter.

sunscream89 1y ago

I think often of that Will Smith slap. I still to this day do not have a condemning moral judgment yet as without hesitation we cannot condone such behavior. It was more than a slap, it was a battlefront of the American psyche. Here is Chris Rock on one side. I have to tell you my respect for him grew through the roof for his dude handling of the situation (every one else but him whimpered like injured children.) I have to say I never liked him or his style before, and have seen his smirks and honest to truth have thought “I wonder how far he will go until one day someone will smack that smile off his face.” I only let out this internal thought with the assertion that I do not believe provocation of pride is enough (though taunting to me is consensual violence.) In the other side is WILL SMITH Legend, defeats aliens or vampire zombies who come to fcuk with us, is the personification of dude heroism and will walk up on, before a million burning watching eyes. And take condescension of his woman right out of a man. Damn. We’re a culture of hot heads and those who trigger others by our exhibitions. That’s America. A part of that anyway. Boo on you Mr. Will Smith that can’t be how we end it, though the split reaction speaks of the super consciousness among us feeding back into our super psyche of selves.