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Re:Rand Paul Pledges to Immediately End NSA Mass Surveillanc... by sgift on Sunday April 12, 2015 @05:27AM (#9362750)
Psychic terror, working against you ever getting a job again if you don't "behave", colluding to make sure you are held down (e.g. your wage, benefits, whatever) .. and so on. People who think that physical violence - the one the government reserves for itself - is the worst form of violence live a very sheltered life. I envy them.
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Re:Rand Paul Pledges to Immediately End NSA Mass Surveillanc... by DickingAround on Sunday April 12, 2015 @12:03PM (#9363745)
Help me understand this better. It seems like being blacklisted by a big company or even entire industry is bad, even life altering. But people get serious PTSD or sometimes even die from one single 5-minute fight with a cop.

Furthermore, I think shunning and blacklisting should be a protected form of individual choice. For example, I'm just not going to hang out with someone that's a racist. That is and should be 100% my choice. But I don't have a right to physically harm them. I'll argue that this arrangement of making violence special and different from harsh-words or shunning will make for a more functional society because we don't always all have to agree but we can still live in one place together.

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