• Dandroid
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      11 year ago

      They are saying that beliefs shouldn’t determine laws.

      That’s not what I meant. I am saying you shouldn’t be arrested simply for holding a belief. Not until you commit an action such as assault, murder, torture, forced labor, or one of a million other things that Nazis do should you be arrested. Being racist shouldn’t be illegal. You should have the right to be a shitty person. But as soon as you hurt someone because of your racist beliefs, you should be arrested.

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          11 year ago

          Convincing others to kill Jewish people is an action that can be (and currently is in most places) illegal. It’s conspiracy to murder.

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              11 year ago

              And that’s something that is worth being arrested over. But if someone claimed to be a Nazi and didn’t do any of that stuff, they shouldn’t be arrested just for associating with people who do those things. That my point. Because that’s a slippery slope. Some governments that I believe to be corrupt have already made beliefs illegal that I personally don’t believe should be. Specifically for holding a religious belief. And then they are rounding up people that I believe to be innocent and put them in forced labor camps. I believe this is too real of a possibility of a government has a history of doing this, what’s to say they won’t also do it to a belief you have? We can all agree Nazism is bad. But what if a government decides leftism is bad and all leftists should be arrested? Even if you have don’t nothing but sit at home and hold those beliefs, you might still be arrested.

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                  11 year ago

                  At this point I think we need to agree to disagree. I think arresting people just because they have a different opinion than you makes us no better than them. I don’t think there’s any way we can convince each other of our beliefs.