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by bjornsing 3617 days ago
Ehhh... What? Most western democracies I've heard of have absolute freedom of thought, so there's no requirement to "desire" anything in particular (what so ever!)...

Most also have reasonably broad freedom of expression, so for instance advocating the passage of laws making it illegal to depict Mohammad is fine, in France as in most other western democracies, I'm quite sure. Even advocating that the death penalty be reinstated and used as punishment for this "crime" would be acceptable.

But taking the law into ones own hands, "executing" people for purported "crimes", is of course both illegal and morally indefensible...