VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris attacks

Re:VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris ... by raverbashing on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @11:47AM (#10582263)

> no matter where but that freedom of speech automatically implies freedom of religion and so it's here to stay and will have to be accommodated, in all its forms?

Depends on the way to go.

If you're going for 100% freedom of speech then you'll have to accept things like the WBC or Neonazi hate speech

Now if you're going for what happens in Europe then going agains hate speech should work for all forms of hate speech, including hate towards any groups and the country itself. Tolerance goes both ways.

> Note that there is a fairly direct line between the Iraq invasion (which France was adamantly against, remember the 'surrender monkeys' and the 'Freedom Fries'?), and the attacks in Paris.

Yes, and I agree with the correlation, but they were against it and got the short stick first.

So damned if you do, damned if you don't? Might as well do it then

> Action begets reaction, so before you react without considering the consequences you should hold still.

I agree. But you can't predict all consequences. Saddam was a ruthless dictator but he kept the other ruthless wanna-be dictators in check.

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Re:VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris ... by jacquesm on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @12:25PM (#10582589)

> If you're going for 100% freedom of speech then you'll have to accept things like the WBC or Neonazi hate speech

I'm fine with that. I'd rather have such sores out in the open than underground where they can rot and fester that much more efficiently.

It also shows them for the idiots they are instead of being able to isolate their wanna-be company into a nice little echo-chamber.

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