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Why? I prefer to live in a society where people can't march through the streets waving signs designed specifically to vilify a specific group. Can you tell me h

Why? I prefer to live in a society where people can't march through the streets waving signs designed specifically to vilify a specific group. Can you tell me how this freedom makes your society better in any way?

guard-of-terra 13y ago
I see a huge value in political protest. It allows a society to figure out its problems. You suggest to sweep problems under the rug until they go real bad and even, in the competitive world, ruin the society's chances forever. Why would people do what you describe? Because they are pure evil? What if they occassionally do have a point?
- hahainternet 13y ago
  You post a load of conjecture that is purely hypothetical and then ask questions from this non-existent world. You do not comprehend the reality you are discussing. Screaming 'GOD HATES FAGS' at someone's funeral is not political protest. It is disgusting psychological abuse.
  - guard-of-terra 13y ago
    Screaming at somebody's funeral should be punishable without the need of referring the content of screams in question.
coldtea 13y ago
"""I prefer to live in a society where people can't march through the streets waving signs designed specifically to vilify a specific group. Can you tell me how this freedom makes your society better in any way?""" For one, what if that specific group makes life worse for the others, so it's rightly villified? Then it would be important that their complaint is known. Second, even if what they say in their "signs" is wrong, I better publicly KNOW that there are people that think this way, and take precautions, that have them do it in secret. Third, it never stops there. It opens an Overton Window that makes speaking freely all the more difficult.
- hahainternet 13y ago
  > For one, what if that specific group makes life worse for the others, so it's rightly villified? Then it would be important that their complaint is known. Sorry what? That's like saying we should listen to the KKK because after all they do make life worse for others!

guard-of-terra 13y ago

I see a huge value in political protest. It allows a society to figure out its problems. You suggest to sweep problems under the rug until they go real bad and even, in the competitive world, ruin the society's chances forever. Why would people do what you describe? Because they are pure evil? What if they occassionally do have a point?

hahainternet 13y ago
You post a load of conjecture that is purely hypothetical and then ask questions from this non-existent world. You do not comprehend the reality you are discussing. Screaming 'GOD HATES FAGS' at someone's funeral is not political protest. It is disgusting psychological abuse.
- guard-of-terra 13y ago
  Screaming at somebody's funeral should be punishable without the need of referring the content of screams in question.

coldtea 13y ago

"""I prefer to live in a society where people can't march through the streets waving signs designed specifically to vilify a specific group. Can you tell me how this freedom makes your society better in any way?""" For one, what if that specific group makes life worse for the others, so it's rightly villified? Then it would be important that their complaint is known. Second, even if what they say in their "signs" is wrong, I better publicly KNOW that there are people that think this way, and take precautions, that have them do it in secret. Third, it never stops there. It opens an Overton Window that makes speaking freely all the more difficult.

hahainternet 13y ago
> For one, what if that specific group makes life worse for the others, so it's rightly villified? Then it would be important that their complaint is known. Sorry what? That's like saying we should listen to the KKK because after all they do make life worse for others!