[scotty79]

It's ok because the thoughts they ban are not novel, they had their time and were thoroughly executed on.

You'll have hard time convincing anyone that thought "Jews are inferior race and should be exterminated" should have the same right to be considered as any other. When we already thought this thought extensively and even based our actions on it and it led only to unprecedented nhuman suffering.

[YEwSdObPQT]

> It's ok because the thoughts they ban are not novel, they had their time and were thoroughly executed on.

"Because it is not new it is okay". Sorry that isn't very convincing.

The issue is that if you ban one set of ideas you have set a precedent to ban other ideas that aren't as odious.

Using the same justification you can criminalise believing in the Earth is flat or any other fringe idea.

> You'll have hard time convincing anyone that thought "Jews are inferior race and should be exterminated" should have the same right to be considered as any other. When we already thought this thought extensively and even based our actions on it and it led only to unprecedented nhuman suffering.

I am not saying they should be considered equally. I am not saying that those ideas are equal. I am saying that someone shouldn't be criminalised for thinking or expressing such ideas.

[scotty79]

> Sorry that isn't very convincing.

If you the idea is crap and it proved that it's crap by leading to genocide why would we award it any protection?

Do tou think next time around, it will lead to something beneficial to mankind?

> Using the same justification you can criminalise believing in the Earth is flat or any other fringe idea.

It did not lead to genocide. The first time it does I hope it's banned to hell.

> I am saying they should be considered equally.

And what's your argument to support this request regarding the specific idea I cited?

[YEwSdObPQT]

> If you the idea is crap and it proved that it's crap by leading to genocide why would we award it any protection?

Lots of communists say that the Soviet Union wasn't "real communism". Yet I never hear the same outcry against that.

I am not saying it should be "protected". I am saying that individual liberties should be protected and one of the most important (after private property rights) is the freedom to speak you mind.

> Do tou think next time around, it will lead to something beneficial to mankind?

No.

> It did not lead to genocide. The first time it does I hope it's banned to hell.

When people questioned the idea that the Earth was the centre of the universe people were punished for such ideas. So that has kind of already happened.