| IFireflyl said: I don't think that at all. You're just using tunnel vision. I am saying the laws are there to restrict certain "freedoms" for a reason. That reason is that there are bad people who will do bad things with that freedom. I am saying that we shouldn't have true freedom of anything (speech or otherwise) because there are people who would abuse that. You're interpretting my words poorly. |
No, the reason we have laws is that people who have power dislike something. Weimar Germany outlawing hate speech and banning the Nazi Party itself didn't prevent anything because, crazily enough, a law against saying something doesn't prevent people from actually saying it. All it does is enable the government to (selectively, as always) persecute certain people and make some bad people into sympathetic figures.
