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Old 08-28-2006, 05:56 AM   #3
MaggieL
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Originally Posted by Aliantha
Racism in any form is disgusting and should be punished. Members of the KKK advocate racism. Any person with those types of view and who thinks they have a right to hold a position of authority in any community either needs punishment or psychological help.
You'll need to get some laws passed, then. Because as I said, racisim isn't illegal; although many forms of discrimination are.

And if you establish that kind of precident for thoughtcrime here, you'd better hope you stay in political control of the country...because I think there will be some outcomes you really, really, really don't like otherwise.

The only thing that might possibly be worse is blurring the distinction between criminal behavior and mental illness any more than it already is.

"You have been convicted of having criminal thoughts, and have been sentenced to drug and behavioral therapy until such time as your thoughts are completely legal once again."

Road to hell, good intentions, etc. Don't you see how dangerous this line of reasoning is?
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