Mazty said:
How are you going to be the bigger man by making things organised? Why are you the bigger man because your lack of comprehensive skills prevents you from following this argument? Seriously? Why do I have the feeling you are a washed out 27 year old trying to make his severely uneducated opinion count for more than it is worth as both times you have started your replies with pretentious bullsh*t?
Mining my profile for ammunition for personal attacks. Really? Wow. Unfounded personal attacks and strawmen do not serve to make your argument stronger. I thought you preferred to employ logic?
And it makes me the bigger person because it makes it easier to follow the points and counterpoints, and if you are not willing to engage in the same way, it is going to make the continued exchange difficult to follow. More importantly, it forces you to face each point individually, which is something you don't have to do if you are addressing the post as a whole, ensuring (theoretically) that you have to actually address what is being said. It isn't hard to do, if you're not lazy. So thanks for indulging me and the others who are reading this.
And you can fucking swear on here without censoring yourself so fucking have at it.
Mazty said:
No, that's not an analogy fail, you have grasped to understand the concept of hindsight. Protest against the war, but burning poppies and yelling during the two minute silence? That is just sh*t stirring and you have to be exceptionally naive to think otherwise. The fact that these protesters then clashed with police shows they were out for a fight, and if the protest had been dispersed before it had started, and innocent police officer would not have been injured.
It is hindsight that guns fire randomly, and for no reason? They do not. That is why your analogy fails. Sure it is important to understand the dangers and complexities of firearms, but without a person to do something, the gun is useless. This protest is not like a gun. Don't be hyperbolic.
In any case, you don't seem to understand that these protesters being dangerous themselves, has nothing to do with how much of a threat their message is to others, which I already pointed out. If
they clashed with the police, that is much different then other people seeing their message, being influenced and then them clashing with police. Learn the difference and then talk to us about "hindsight".
Mazty said:
The protest WAS a legitimate threat to the public because they got violent...The words they said and signs they held was done to simply cause unrest, proof being they attacked the cops.
Thing is, if you yell "Atheism rules! All religions are gateways to violence, down with all religious people" you could, I hope, support it logically as to why you think so. Religion has caused wars etc and so you'd have a logical grounding for your argument. It'd be a different case if you were shouting "All BLACKS are going to BURN IN HELL!" or start making other divisions due to gender, race or occupation because you have no rational argument.
Question for you: Do you think the Phelps should be allowed to say what they do wherever they like or do you think their restrictions are acceptable?
I propose removing people who are a danger to society. Nothing the Nazi's did was because of that reasoning - they killed people because of racism, anti-Semitism and feelings of racial superiority. You should be ashamed of yourself for repeating the same sh*t over and over whilst showing a clear lack of understanding of who the Nazi's were.
The act of protesting was a threat in this specific instance, yes, because of the individuals involved and their choice to get violent. I already said as much, so you're just repeating yourself now. Can we now move away from that, perhaps? Because that is not relevant to the discussion about their message, and the right to say it. You've yet to prove their message was also a threat to others or that it has caused other people to become violent as a result.
And you've yet to differentiate your brand of censorship from that of the Nazis, aside from yours being slightly less extreme. They took people away for having dissenting opinions. You propose the same, as you cannot prove that their message is an actual threat. It matters not the reasoning behind it. Deportation is
not a reasonable response to this sort of message or protest.
And even if it were classified as hate speech or as inciting violence or whatever else, to play Devil's advocate to my own argument, so what? That is why you have courts and jails. Where would these people be deported to? What if they are second or third generation? Your proposition is fucking ludicrous.
And no, I wouldn't have any logical backing for that hypothetical argument, as religion is nothing more then a set of customs, rules or books.
People kill other people, and the second that you attribute atrocities to things like religion, which is innate, you take responsibility away from individuals who have free will. Maybe that is the difference between you and I. You seem to think the public is easily swayed. I tend to think we have agency.
Besides of which, I was only using that as an example of some sort of protest, but from the other side of things. What I was hypothetically saying on the street corner is not of any real relevance. What is relevant is that people who are mentally sound are responsible for their own actions. That you think these guys are a legitimate threat to soldiers because their message is hateful, unpleasant and distasteful, is Goddamned silly. Again, do you honestly think the public is that easily influenced? Please answer this time.
FYI, I don't support Phelps and their message, no. I do support their right to protest on public property, as they have a right to say what they wish, provided it is not classified as hate speech or whatever else. That they protest funerals is in extremely bad taste and I think them all to be a bunch of hateful, blind fools, but I don't wish them deported for that. That is a fucking ludicrous proposition. Besides, people have come up with all manner of creative ways to thwart them anyhow and I don't believe in censoring them. That just means that their brand of bigotry will move underground.
Mazty said:
Yes it is relevant because you have the power of hindsight. Going around yelling at people "IM BETTER THAN YOU BECAUSE OF REASONS I CANT PROVE" is a)not constructive in anyway and b)sh*t stirring showing that person is wanting to cause violence or at best, social unrest, neither or which are good. What is good and constructive? Views which when conveyed reasonably and rationally make sense and do not incite violence, hatred etc but reasonable debate e.g. say "The war in Iraq is wrong" because you can back it up with reasons such as there were no WMD's and therefore no need to be in Iraq, sparking rational debate whether or not prevention of WMD's is justifiable or not. Something which is not beneficial is segregating people because of their occupation, ethnicity, race, gender etc as that is well racist, sexist and occupational segregation.
If you think segregation is a view that should be promoted, then you are far more like the Nazi's then anyone else here.
So? Again, something doesn't have to be "constructive" it be legal. What is so hard for you to understand about that? Unpleasant though their message may be, they have a right to it. And where would the world be without social unrest and other upheavals? Civil rights in America would have stagnated. Health care in Canada would not be a modern reality. Social unrest isn't always a bad thing.
Strawmen from you though. I don't support their message (which I've said and implied, several times), so I do not support segregation. I do support their right to say their message. You, on the other hand, wish them to be removed from society. Which is segregation. Hilarious.
And for the third time, why do
you get to decide what is constructive or not?
Mazty said:
Oh because THEY clashed with police it's okay and certainly shows their protest was done with good intentions as well as being a beneficial to society because everyone likes injured police officers. Yah, cool story brah.
You've shown yourself to be a narrow minded liberal who is willing to let others segregate members of society and incite violence because you are too scared to get off the fence. Thankfully, you are not in the UK so your toxic views will not enter society here. Just pass on my sorrow to the Canadians for having to put up with your frankly dangerous and deluded views.
Again, personal attacks are not arguments. So much for logic.
And another strawman. How about that? I didn't say that it was OK that they got into it with the coppers. I did say that there is a difference between them doing so and them influencing others to do so, which you seem to think is a real threat, to the point of thinking they need to be deported. Which is absurd and disproportionate to what they did. I think that locking people up and exiling them on the pretense that their tiny protest and their distasteful signs is a supposed "threat" (even though it has yet been pointed out how) is a rather dangerous view, and one that threatens any free society because it advocates for extreme censorship, amongst other things.
And once again, pulling irrelevant politics into this is a diversion tactic, and one that takes away from legitimate debate. I guess you don't know what a strawman is after all and you clearly are not about logic or honest debate. If I didn't know any better, I'd wager that you're trolling.
Anyway, have fun making personal attacks and using illogical and fallacious arguments to promote an extremely fascist POV. I certainly hope your views never end up on the wrong side of everyone else, lest people advocate that you be deported some day.