
i mean there are laws that legitimately protect you from legal ramifications of physical altercations if someone’s speech includes “fighting words” .. so yes, some people do have the right to assault someone over their speech bc the speech provoked it, and the provocateur is legally in the wrong 🤷🏼♀️
well its also insults, dog whistles, and just other offensive (meaning on the offense, opposite of defensive) speech that instigates someone to become agitated. even if what they’re saying is “free speech”, the act of speaking provocatively is sometimes enough legally to absolve the person of any criminal charges if they assault the provocateur. i think #2 was mentioning some streamer who shot someone after he was provoking them to fight him. see a case rundown by TheLuncheonLawyer on YT
I’m glad we agree there. There’s been plenty of cases on this, but also some where the person wasn’t intending to have a physical altercation, just said those horrible things and left, but they still got hit with criminal charges due to the crowd’s concern (including kids) of an imminent altercation. so TLDR for me; it’s “protected speech” until you’re using it AT people instead of WITH people.
i think OP is saying “freedom of speech doesn’t absolve you of the moral implications of what you say”. you’re saying “freedom of speech doesn’t absolve you of the social consequences and reactions of others who interpret the moral implications of what you say”. same shit more words
Cool but our current government would probably argue it should only apply to MAGA people being called Nazis or some ridiculous nonsense. My point is that your anger at their beliefs doesn't outweigh the danger of giving that power to government, beat them at their politics or in life if you hate them so much.
I never said anything about giving the power to the government. In your initial comment, you complained about people “[acting] like they [had] some right to assault others over their speech”. I am saying here that I do. As soon as someone expresses that they are against human rights, they have forfeited any sort of decency they’re entitled to.