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Originally Posted by _Opi_
Kevin, if someone insulted your way of life, your religion, ethnicity, etc. you have the right to speak out against it. Hate speech or the like should no be tolerated, right?
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The problem is that these two statement are not necessarily compatible. Of course, if one's way of life, religion, ethnicity, etc., is insulted, one has a right to speak against it. That speech, in my view, does not include death threats.
But if one is going to live in a free society with freedom of speech, at the end of the day, one has to tolerate hate speech (whatever that is -- it seems to me to be a catchall phrase for "speech that offends me" without having any real, objective meaning). Free speech works both ways.
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