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Iceland makes blasphemy legal
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RE: Iceland makes blasphemy legal
July 3, 2015 at 11:07 pm
(July 3, 2015 at 7:37 pm)Dystopia Wrote: Don't get your hopes on, making blasphemy legal does not erase hate speech laws that encompass any characteristic you can incite hate against, like race, gender and also religion. It's like abolishing a law saying you can go to jail for smoke weed while keeping another saying you can go to jail for doing drugs.

Blasphemy is generally much broader than hate speech.  Blasphemy can be saying that Jesus was just a man.  But that is not hate speech.

"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
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Iceland makes blasphemy legal - by zebo-the-fat - July 3, 2015 at 10:23 am
RE: Iceland makes blasphemy legal - by Longhorn - July 3, 2015 at 10:42 am
RE: Iceland makes blasphemy legal - by zebo-the-fat - July 3, 2015 at 10:58 am
RE: Iceland makes blasphemy legal - by vorlon13 - July 3, 2015 at 11:23 am
RE: Iceland makes blasphemy legal - by Iroscato - July 3, 2015 at 11:27 am
RE: Iceland makes blasphemy legal - by Alex K - July 3, 2015 at 11:41 am
RE: Iceland makes blasphemy legal - by Longhorn - July 3, 2015 at 12:28 pm
Iceland makes blasphemy legal - by KUSA - July 3, 2015 at 12:39 pm
RE: Iceland makes blasphemy legal - by Minimalist - July 3, 2015 at 12:41 pm
RE: Iceland makes blasphemy legal - by vorlon13 - July 3, 2015 at 1:12 pm
RE: Iceland makes blasphemy legal - by Alex K - July 3, 2015 at 2:35 pm
RE: Iceland makes blasphemy legal - by Longhorn - July 3, 2015 at 2:37 pm
RE: Iceland makes blasphemy legal - by Alex K - July 3, 2015 at 2:40 pm
RE: Iceland makes blasphemy legal - by Pyrrho - July 3, 2015 at 3:05 pm
RE: Iceland makes blasphemy legal - by Godschild - July 3, 2015 at 4:15 pm
RE: Iceland makes blasphemy legal - by Longhorn - July 3, 2015 at 4:20 pm
RE: Iceland makes blasphemy legal - by Pyrrho - July 3, 2015 at 4:30 pm
RE: Iceland makes blasphemy legal - by Godschild - July 3, 2015 at 10:39 pm
RE: Iceland makes blasphemy legal - by Nope - July 4, 2015 at 11:45 am
RE: Iceland makes blasphemy legal - by Metis - July 3, 2015 at 6:43 pm
RE: Iceland makes blasphemy legal - by Godschild - July 3, 2015 at 10:33 pm
RE: Iceland makes blasphemy legal - by Cato - July 3, 2015 at 10:39 pm
RE: Iceland makes blasphemy legal - by Metis - July 4, 2015 at 2:10 pm
RE: Iceland makes blasphemy legal - by Cato - July 3, 2015 at 10:37 pm
RE: Iceland makes blasphemy legal - by Ravenshire - July 4, 2015 at 12:33 am
RE: Iceland makes blasphemy legal - by Dystopia - July 3, 2015 at 7:37 pm
RE: Iceland makes blasphemy legal - by Pyrrho - July 3, 2015 at 11:07 pm
RE: Iceland makes blasphemy legal - by Dystopia - July 4, 2015 at 5:56 am
RE: Iceland makes blasphemy legal - by KevinM1 - July 3, 2015 at 10:06 pm
RE: Iceland makes blasphemy legal - by robvalue - July 4, 2015 at 5:45 am
RE: Iceland makes blasphemy legal - by vorlon13 - July 4, 2015 at 4:12 pm

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