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Don't forget Holocaust denial, which is illegal to various extents in Germany and many other countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_against_Holocaust_de
by baddox 11y ago
Don't forget Holocaust denial, which is illegal to various extents in Germany and many other countries:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_against_Holocaust_denial#Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_against_Holocaust_denial#...
- Cyph0n 11y agoEven doubting the usually thrown around number of 6 million is punishable by law in countries like France. So now we can't debate the casualty count? Talk about double standards. France also did the same with the Armenian genocide recently.
- linschn 11y agoThat's not what the law says. The french law you are talking about gives the same force to the conclusion of the Nuremberg trials as all other justice decisions. We call that "autorité de la chose jugée". You can still discuss the body count.
- oh_sigh 11y agoCan you doubt it and say it was closer to 7 million?
- ikeboy 11y agoWhat do you think of the arguments in http://lesswrong.com/lw/ase/schelling_fences_on_slippery_slopes/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/ase/schelling_fences_on_slippery_slo... ?
- baddox 11y agoI generally don't place much stock in slippery slope arguments, but it obviously depends on how confident I am about the slipperiness of a slope. I would, for instance, make the argument that a recovering alcoholic should not have even just one drink, because that's very real slope that's truly very slippery.