[faitswulff]

Shouldn't hate speech should be punished?

[acct1771]

Offending someone shouldn't be illegal. Period.

Directly inciting actual physical violence, you might have an argument for.

But words and ideas must remain free to maintain any semblance of a free society.

As other commenters have said: who decides?

[i_am_nomad]

The problem with that is, who defines what “hate” is?

[chrischen]

London deemed hate wpeech punishable, China determines certain speech (that it deems bad for society as well) punishable. No difference except for a difference in perspective.

[Karunamon]

No. Not because of the usual slippery slope reasons, but because denying someone their freedom for mere words is abhorrent.