(July 17, 2015 at 6:08 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Unless I've got some of that social privilege to cash in (which I do)..after all..we did "bomb them", eh?
I get where you're coming from btw Abaris, I don't like that extending this freedom can sometimes lead to ugly results, but I also don;t like the ugly results when that same freedom is rescinded or not present. A person arguing that we should rise up against our evil oppressors and fight back is, technically, inciting violence through hate speech. In a world in which the Klansman can be prosecuted for his words, so can the man who finds himself on the wrong end of an oppressive regimes shitlist.
I don't see that as hate speech, but then again I'm not supporting the prosecution of mere speech but when your words inspire someone to commit material damage against other people - If I incentive people to form a guerrilla and fight against X or Y, should I be blameless when I'm pretty much the anchor of the organization? When taken to the limit, crime lords can't be arrested as long as they didn't personally commit any of the crimes - After all, no one is forcing the soldier to obey, right?
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
