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I think it is a very bad idea to frame this in terms of emotion. To call it hate speech. Threats is one thing. But the emotion behind the speech seems to me off the table. One can be hateful while being apparantly inexpressive. You can deny what others say, imply horrible things about them, but avoid 'hate' speech.Greatest I am wrote:Does hate serve a good purpose for us?
For evil to grow, all good people who know what to hate need do is allow censorship and the end of freedom of speech.
Regards
DL
Karpel Tunnel wrote:I think it is a very bad idea to frame this in terms of emotion.Greatest I am wrote:Does hate serve a good purpose for us?
For evil to grow, all good people who know what to hate need do is allow censorship and the end of freedom of speech.
Regards
DL
If love is an emotion then so is hate so I have no problem speaking of it in terms of emotion.To call it hate speech. Threats is one thing. But the emotion behind the speech seems to me off the table. One can be hateful while being apparently inexpressive. You can deny what others say, imply horrible things about them, but avoid 'hate' speech.
I hope not. Would you think kindly of one who spoke of his love for you without expression?
I would think that rather cold.Emotions should be free. Hate is often a response to hate.
Indeed, and reciprocity is fair play. That follows the Golden Rule.It may not be the best response in some situations. One may be better or more honest if one expresses fear or avoid the other. And other practical considerations.
Too vague for me to agree but if I fear something or someone, I think I hate whatever that is. We tend not to like to live in or with fear.But just as disliking something is not necessarily a problem, raising the intensity of the dislike to hate is not a problem, per se.
I agree.I dislike when, for example, a woman expresses a view, and someone who disagrees says she should be raped. It's not a threat, but offends me that a hatred of women gets to slide into a disagreement over some policy or rule.
Ditto. It would take a prick to respond like that.Hate the rule, the argument. You can even hate the person, but there is no need for making it somehow a sexual aggression.
Indeed. Reciprocity to words should be words without implying any other harm than verbal.I would probably cut out such comments if I was running a forum. And if it happened in real life, I would likely get really pissed off. And social repurcussions are the best response I think, rather than silencing.
But if you say something that people disagree with I think getting hundreds of people commenting on how you are an ugly cunt and deserve to be raped is a problem not because it is hate, but because it is something other than an honest expression of emotion.
Prismatic567 wrote:We need to put the above 'censorship of hate speech' in context.
Where 'hate' is directed at human features that cannot be changed easily, e.g. race, color, genetic elements, physical deformities, and the likes then such hate related speech, writings and expression MUST be censored and nipped in the bud with heavy penalties.
As for hate related to various human elements that can be changed, e.g. a person's religion and other subjective issues, and the likes, these need not be censored. Where there are evils and violence are involved, they can be dealt with separately.
At the present, the term 'hate' is heavily abused in relation to religion [changeable] where any critique even deserving ones and the slightest criticism of religions are regarded as hate speech and the person and penalized heavily.
I believe people intuitively sensed hate related to human features [e.g. race, color] that cannot be changed easily should be censored and penalized for non-conformance. This is why many Muslims and their apologists are rhetorically conflating Islam which is a religion with a race. Those who critique Islam are condemned as racists.
Now we're talking.phyllo wrote:And what exactly is "hate speech"?
What??I see nothing to argue against. Thanks for this well reasoned post.
"Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime." - Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart
Does hate serve a good purpose for us?
For evil to grow, all good people who know what to hate need do is allow censorship and the end of freedom of speech.
phyllo wrote:What??I see nothing to argue against. Thanks for this well reasoned post.
He's arguing for censorship and "heavy penalties".
Wasn't your OP arguing against censorship with statements like this :"Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime." - Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart
Does hate serve a good purpose for us?
For evil to grow, all good people who know what to hate need do is allow censorship and the end of freedom of speech.
Which suggests that Prismatic is allowing evil to grow by supporting censorship.
Did you change your mind?
Now you are for censorship?
Okay, so you are for censorship. Any speech not covered by the umbrella of "just cause" ought to be censored.I read this as his speaking about racism and other discriminations without a just cause.
Do you think we should allow discrimination in speech without a just cause?
Is that not what we call misogyny, homophobia and anti-Semitism?
I believe in freedom of speech. I do not believe in the freedom to knowingly lie and discriminate without a just cause.
Freedom of speech means that people can say things which are misogynist, homophobic or antisemitic. (Or they are perceived as such by the listener, rightly or wrongly.)Is that not what we call misogyny, homophobia and anti-Semitism?
phyllo wrote:Okay, so you are for censorship. Any speech not covered by the umbrella of "just cause" ought to be censored.I read this as his speaking about racism and other discriminations without a just cause.
Do you think we should allow discrimination in speech without a just cause?
Is that not what we call misogyny, homophobia and anti-Semitism?
I believe in freedom of speech. I do not believe in the freedom to knowingly lie and discriminate without a just cause.
The concept of "just cause" is vague. Certainly, it means different things to different people. The most important meaning will be the one chosen by the authorities which control the police forces. It's going to be abused and misused.
phyllo wrote:Freedom of speech means that people can say things which are misogynist, homophobic or antisemitic. (Or they are perceived as such by the listener, rightly or wrongly.)Is that not what we call misogyny, homophobia and anti-Semitism?
Somehow you manage to convince yourself that you do not support censorship, although everything you write indicates that you do. I guess the concept of "just cause" makes you feel good about censorship.No. I am not for censorship.
I am against the type of freedom of speech I named and it would be to a judge to put gag orders on those who would discriminate without a just cause.
If a judge could find a just cause then he should not issue a gag order.
If speech is censored, then the public could not learn what the public/legal standards are that a judge would show.
Let all have free speech, with sanctions where legally appropriate.
phyllo wrote:Somehow you manage to convince yourself that you do not support censorship, although everything you write indicates that you do. I guess the concept of "just cause" makes you feel good about censorship.No. I am not for censorship.
I am against the type of freedom of speech I named and it would be to a judge to put gag orders on those who would discriminate without a just cause.
If a judge could find a just cause then he should not issue a gag order.
If speech is censored, then the public could not learn what the public/legal standards are that a judge would show.
Let all have free speech, with sanctions where legally appropriate.
How do you know that it is intentional lying rather than being misinformed or ignorant?I am all in for free speech but not for free lying.
Greatest I am wrote:
I am all in for free speech but not for free lying.
phyllo wrote:How do you know that it is intentional lying rather than being misinformed or ignorant?I am all in for free speech but not for free lying.
Karpel Tunnel wrote:Greatest I am wrote:
I am all in for free speech but not for free lying.
The problem with this is you did think some kinds of communication should be stopped, for example racism. But racists do not think they are lying. And neither do most of the theists you hate. They are believers.
So you think that everyone who speaks about gods ought to be censored.Every time someone says something of the Gods, it is a lie.
God is unknowable.
I ask you a general question about how lying would be detected and what to do about human errors. You cherry pick televangelists in response.
I don't think 'slander' is what you mean, but in any case, this is the case right now. You can accuse them of lying or spreading falsehood. They have free speech and so do you. So I am not sure if you mean they should be censored or not.Greatest I am wrote:[
What they think is not as important as what they can prove or risk being accused of slander.
That is simply not the case. Unless you are arguing that there are no theists.Every time someone says something of the Gods, it is a lie.
phenomenal_graffiti wrote:How does one prove God does not exist?
The above question is based on the ASSUMPTION from your perspective that God exists.
Since it is your assumption, why should I accept your assumption?
For intellectual honesty sake, the onus is on you to convert your assumption to fact first [i.e. prove God exists] else your question is merely 'assumptive' and useless.
Another counter to
"How does one prove God does not exist?"
is that the idea of God is a non-starter, moot.
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