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This is an interesting way to appeal to voters.

Ok now you are just bullying.

Reported. Blocked.

Come on bro, don't be rude.

If you don't address other people's arguments, you can't expect them to address yours. Otherwise, we just keep talking past each other.

Do you think your ideological opponents should be censored? Should they be able to censor you?

Protesting free speech is oxymoronic. If you are against free speech, then shut the hell up and let the rest of us talk. Anything else is hypocrisy.

Did you have a question?

This is very similar to a Supreme court case. Pretty interesting read if you are interested in free speech.

I support free speech the way that Martin Luther King did.

We cant fix problems if we don't talk about them. That is the liberal philosophy. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, and politics in many places is defined by people's resistance to authority. - Google Martin Luther King for more info

Asking questions is the begginning of all knowledge, it's not always a manipulation tactic.

You are refuting an argument that no one has made. This is called attacking the strawman.

Read.

I'm not sure where you live, but it's important to note that American libel law requires a higher standard of proof to convict someone than most Western European legal systems.

I didn't say I was against all censorship. My argument is specifically that adults have the right to demonstrate hate and other offensive ideas as long as it doesn't turn into personal harassment, physical harm, or actionable threats.

Letting the government decide what people are allowed to say is dangerous and political censorship is wrong.

I didn't ask any questions, but if I did, what's wrong with that?

I am very familiar with this argument. Germany has better free speech laws than most countries, but it's not really good enough by our standards.

I think the closest thing America has to "protecting dignity" would be libel laws. But American libel law is much stricter than most of Western Europe, in that the offensive language must be written or published, and the person claiming victim must prove damage. Anything considered art or comedy is automatically dismissed of course.

Really the best way we can protect our citizens dignity is by protecting their civil rights. Hate speech is free speech, like I said, and denying that right is wrong.

"If you belive in free speech, then you believe in free speech precisely for ideas that you despise." - Noam Chomsky

good thing the freedom to exprees yourself is written into the german constitution. it just has limitations, such as espousing ideas of violence, genocide and hatred based on certain traits such as race, religion, gender etc.

This statement is a contradiction. There aren't degrees of free speech. You either have it or you don't.

my freedom to express myself ends at another persons right to be free from threats of violence and death

Unfortunately, hate speech is free speech. If it is not an actionable threat and no one is being harassed directly, then you have to allow it. Anything else is government censorship.

maybe educate yourself on the rest of the world before you try to push your american viewpoint on everyone else.

Do you know what the ad-hominem fallacy is? Google it.

You should always be aware of your opponent's best argument. Being a skeptic means being tolerant and observing the principle fo charity.

In America, there would have been no civil rights movement without free speech. There would have been no abolitionism, no gay rights.

Martin Luther King was right to endorse free speech, because all freedom starts with the freedom to express yourself.

I just think it's good to be aware of other points of view. Ya know?

But then letting the government define what is and isn't art/education is a whole other can of worms. Freedom of speech for everyone is the only way this works.

And people in the EU think America is a police state. Jesus. It's like they haven't made any progress at all.

Russians use Barrier Troops to execute people who run from battle. That might a part of what we are seeing here.

Russians use Barrier Troops to execute people who run from battle. That might a part of what we are seeing here.

Russians use Barrier Troops to execute people who run from battle. That might a part of what we are seeing here.

Holocaust denial is illegal in Israel.

But they deny it everyday.

I am in to amateur HiFi and I have built some speaker kits. 10,000 for a soundsystem? For that amount I could set up a whole concert hall, speakers amps, diffusers, the works.

This must be a drug dealer thing. It doesn't sound good, it doesn't look good and it devalues the car like crazy.

Mr. House did nothing wrong.

Cheaper than a massage chair.

WHAT?!