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Originally posted by Lady Pi Phi
I disagree. I don't think it infringes on my liberty as a Canadian citizen.
The Canadian Criminal Code differentiates between people inciting hatred and people expressing thoughts and feelings that some might consider hateful.
The law protects those from the zealots that might take their feelings and act on them. They are not regulating thought.
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There is a difference between speech that is hateful, and that which is inciteful. Even when trying to regulate inciteful speech, there needs to be a clear and compelling reason to do so, and it must be based on urgency (like yelling "fire" in a movie theater.)
If the law is superfluous to existing laws, its a diminishment of liberty, and even worse, it begins a slow and slippery slope to tyrany.
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