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Originally Posted by WEG Cory
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i agree with some of what you said, but please realize that you are on a very very slippery slope. today, we may all agree that organized religion and racist organizations have a track record for murder and move to ban them (good luck getting the christians banned, by the way). tomorrow, the majority of the populace may believe that pronography has a track record of kitten murder causation and there goes your shiny house and pimp ride.
in short, there is a good reason why we have amendments to the constitution which guarantee freedom of assembly and freedom of speech - to protect the minority against the tyranny of the majority.
what the UK *should* do, and what most of europe already does, is to pass laws making hate speech illegal. if you get up on a soapbox and urge people to assault pakistanis, you go to jail. if you urge them to demolish the west by killing civilians, you go to jail. there is no possible circumstance, under kantian ethics, where preaching hate is morally correct. this has served those countries in europe with neonazi problems really well.