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My general 'approach' with this is that people should perhaps be massively bollocked, but never imprisoned, for saying dumb racist/homophobic shit, or indeed, shit of any sort. Unless it can be determined that a group of people are genuinely going to attack someone/the group pose some sort of general security risk through their words.

 

If someone shouts fire in a crowded theatre.....:heh:

 

But it is easier to make blanket legislation covering this: "If you say it, you will be prosecuted as if you intended to do it..." if you simply "investigate" the people and try and find out what their intention was, it's a waste of time and resources.

 

I don't believe so, no. It's not legal to discriminate based on colour or gender etc., and that's the judicial acknowledgement that it's wrong. But I find it fundamentally wrong if the government can outlaw what people are allowed to think or express.

 

 

I believe people should be banned from thinking about parsnips. Parsnips are the Devil's Willy.

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