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Originally Posted by vautrain
...calling for the death of anyone is wrong.
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A bit universal (and idealistic), don't you think? To use the most extreme example, would you have thought it wrong to call for Hitler's death in, say, 1942? If you think that would be wrong, well, you must not like Jews very much. Or Russians. Or... lives.
It takes a principled person to violate one's own principles.
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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