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Censorship is a much greater crime than insult. (lazysoci.al)
submitted 2 months ago by presoak@lazysoci.al to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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[-] irate944@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not really. Censorship is not only about political opinions. Banning child pornography is a form of censorship, but I doubt anyone sane would dare to argue that that's a bad thing. (if anyone reading thinks otherwise, please do me a favour and go jump off a bridge, the world would be better place without you)

But even if we focus on political discourse, consider the paradox of tolerance. If we lived in an ideal society, censorship would not be necessary. But we don't, there are people that are more than happy to take away other's rights and freedom of opinion. A functional society must be intolerant of the intolerant and not give them a platform.

Edit: I'm not going to pretend that I know exactly where tolerant opinions end and intolerant opinions begin, but I know that both exist, and I believe we must censor the intolerant ones

[-] PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Insult isn't even a crime :P

edit: Shouldn't be a crime.
Unpopular Opinion: Adults that can't handle insults are overgrown children. Most of the time insults are to the detriment of the person insulting anyway.

[-] eatham@aussie.zone 0 points 2 months ago

AFAIK censorship isn't a crime at all, and insults can be* over here

*if they are 'hate speech' which I am not sure if is defined in law or not

[-] Banana@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Depends on the country. Hate speech is defined in Canadian law I think

[-] presoak@lazysoci.al -1 points 2 months ago

I'm shooting for an objective, real-value kind of perspective here.

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