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Originally Posted by _Richard_
try being a communist in the 60s? black? there is plenty of examples of thoughts and beliefs turning into 'crimes' guided by the majority
anyway
my point really, is that in order for something to be 'a crime', someone needs to 'think, or 'believe', that an action is so unjust, it is punishable by death/incarceration/citation by society as a whole. Therefore, thoughts and beliefs are capable of becoming laws, and in extension capable of doing great harm to the 'greater good'
why you need to 'care'
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Again, you confuse 'care' and 'want' with 'right'. Aside from that, the thoughts/beliefs of *anyone in the entire history of the human race* didn't turn into anything until an action was taken, whether that action was a physical occurence, or was an intent of a physical occurence.
As much as it might be to your distate that someone may believe eg gay men are less intelligent that straight men, you have about as much 'right' to force that person to believe otherwise as I do to 'make' you believe anything I do. With the paradox being, as I've said previously, that you have every right to believe you *do* have that right
