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**wentscat** · 09-13-2011, 04:19 AM

"Hate speech" is such a controversial expression. It can be used in so many different ways. I wonder how useful it really is.

I have nothing against it. If a country is multiracial, and if in it there are, or there have been in a recent past, racial tensions, then create laws to deal with that. That's what laws are for: to impose order and stability. If in order to achieve that it's necessary to curb "individual rights", so what? Better to do that, better to prevent the demonization of other groups, than to let society break down in many mutually-hostile factions: something that breeds in violence and, in some situations, may result in civil wars.

09-13-2011, 04:19 AM	#23
wentscat Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 471 Senior Member	"Hate speech" is such a controversial expression. It can be used in so many different ways. I wonder how useful it really is. I have nothing against it. If a country is multiracial, and if in it there are, or there have been in a recent past, racial tensions, then create laws to deal with that. That's what laws are for: to impose order and stability. If in order to achieve that it's necessary to curb "individual rights", so what? Better to do that, better to prevent the demonization of other groups, than to let society break down in many mutually-hostile factions: something that breeds in violence and, in some situations, may result in civil wars.
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