Comment by dns_snek
4 months ago
So you're murdering people and asking whether the government should stop you? Obviously? Not just by restricting your speech but by using lethal force if necessary.
4 months ago
So you're murdering people and asking whether the government should stop you? Obviously? Not just by restricting your speech but by using lethal force if necessary.
So you agree that speech which causes deaths should be restricted?
It's not speech. You have a gun that fires when you say a word. You having a setup that fires the gun when you say a word instead of pulling a trigger doesn't mean you are utilizing "speech" in any meaningful sense of the word, other than that the gun responds to a sound.
There is no gun involved. I say the words, and the person dies. Should the government restrict my speech?
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Yes, for some definition of "speech which causes deaths". This definition should include calls to violence but exclude, for example, vaccine skepticism.
There's a big ol' messy line between a powerful entity saying "I would like you not to do that" and "I'm going to stop you from doing that".
We don't want to be in some world where the gov can't ask people to stop being/hosting vaccine deniers.