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Let's say we're both in the army and I'm your commanding officer. I order you to kill a civilian and you do it. Did I just kill a civilian, or did I just say s
by echelon 1y ago
Let's say we're both in the army and I'm your commanding officer. I order you to kill a civilian and you do it.
Did I just kill a civilian, or did I just say some words?
I think it's clearly the former.
Another case: someone takes private nude photographs of your wife and then uploads them without her consent to social media. Is that "free speech" or sexual assault?
I'm pretty close to free speech absolutism, but there are some things that go beyond just being speech or opinions. Libel and defamation (whose scope is very narrow), shouting fire and it leading to injury or death, influencing or instructing someone to kill another person, spreading non-consentual sexual imagery, etc.