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Topic	If being RACIST was ILLEGAL in your country, would that be a problem for you????
SKARDAVNELNATE 01/26/20 2:11:35 PM #13:	BlackScythe0 posted... when you start policing thought you don't really have any way of telling what is going to offend another person. This is a problem with policing speech in general. Enacting physical harm on someone is illegal. Threatening someone is illegal because it might lead to enacting physical harm. Inciting violence is illegal because it might cause someone else to enact physical harm. Note that enacting physical harm and talking about potential physical harm are not the same action. Isn't it enough to criminalize the one thing? Criminalizing the things that can lead up to that thing makes it so a crime is committed even if the the thing you wanted to punish never occurred. Plus if you criminalize provoking another person to take action then is that person blameless so long as someone else is guilty of incitement? Next it's not only physical harm they police but emotional harm. Is it a crime to say something mean to someone and it doesn't effect them? Is it a crime to say something mean to someone and it did effect them? Is it a crime to say something mean to someone which wouldn't normally effect them but on a bad day it did effect them? Note that the action taken doesn't change. When you add special treatment for designated races it gets even more confusing. Would you argue with someone you disagree with? Would you argue with someone of the same race you disagree with? Would you argue with someone of a designated race you disagree with? Can they accuse of racism just because? Is this an accusation where you are automatically assumed to be guilty? --- No locked doors, no windows barred. No more things to make my brain seem SKARD. Look at Mr. Technical over here >.> -BTB <cite>SKARDAVNELNATE posted [p:933510122] in If being R... [t:78359142]...</cite> <quote>BlackScythe0 posted... </cite> <quote>when you start policing thought you don't really have any way of telling what is going to offend another person.</quote>This is a problem with policing speech in general. Enacting physical harm on someone is illegal. Threatening someone is illegal because it might lead to enacting physical harm. Inciting violence is illegal because it might cause someone else to enact physical harm. Note that enacting physical harm and talking about potential physical harm are not the same action. Isn't it enough to criminalize the one thing? Criminalizing the things that can lead up to that thing makes it so a crime is committed even if the the thing you wanted to punish never occurred. Plus if you criminalize provoking another person to take action then is that person blameless so long as someone else is guilty of incitement? Next it's not only physical harm they police but emotional harm. Is it a crime to say something mean to someone and it doesn't effect them? Is it a crime to say something mean to someone and it did effect them? Is it a crime to say something mean to someone which wouldn't normally effect them but on a bad day it did effect them? Note that the action taken doesn't change. When you add special treatment for designated races it gets even more confusing. Would you argue with someone you disagree with? Would you argue with someone of the same race you disagree with? Would you argue with someone of a designated race you disagree with? Can they accuse of racism just because? Is this an accusation where you are automatically assumed to be guilty? --- No locked doors, no windows barred. No more things to make my brain seem SKARD. Look at Mr. Technical over here >.> -BTB</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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