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scott wrote:
> have the laws to give the police power to really stop anything like that
> ever happening again.
So, no matter how much the population might want that, they can't have
it. Welcome to lack of democracy.
> It's not so much the arresting them, but the seriousness of the
> situation that it instills on everyone else.
So, we don't really want to arrest you. We want you to just understand
we really, really mean it.
> It's like saying "look
> this is a really important part of history that we must never forget,
> there's no way anyone is allowed to try and mess it up by spreading
> false information and beliefs".
And I'm sure there are large numbers of people in the USA that would say
*exactly* the same thing about the Bible, and large numbers of people in
the middle east who would say *exactly* the same thing about the Koran.
>> The problem comes when you start arresting people next for not
>> believing that men are superior and that God exists and should be obeyed.
>
> I think the holocaust is a just exception to normal beliefs.
Why? Isn't it better to show people they're wrong than to arrest the
people who hold unpopular opinions? And don't think they don't get
arrested - that's what laws are for.
> I think with that one they just don't want to define a line to divide
> what is ok and what's not ok regarding the nazi symbol, far easier to
> just say nothing is ok.
And that's the other half of the problem. Censorship isn't OK just
because you're censoring an unpopular opinion. Indeed, that's kind of
the point.
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Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
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