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by snowwrestler 1385 days ago
Illinois is not morally required to protect speech. They are prevented from using government powers to restrict or punish speech.

If counter protestors show up and shout over the Nazis, Illinois is not morally required to silence the counter protestors so the Nazis can speak.

And if Nazis want to gather on private land, Illinois is not morally required to force the private landowner to permit that.

The morality of equality is compromised by the practical execution of law. It’s legal for a cop to pull a gun and force you to the ground; it’s not legal for you to do that to me (or vice versa). So we place constraints on when the government can apply those special powers.