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Usually in these kind of threads I always see people defend the perpetuators of harm (such as Alex Jones and the amount of harm he did to the Sandy Hook parents) rather than the victims of said harm. Or at the very least, I never see people offer an actual solution other than completely capitulating to said perpetuators and letting them harm innocent people.

Ultimately I do think Germany is a bit too heavy handed in what it's trying to do, but at the same time this is also the direct result of communities being overly tolerant of neo-Nazis and creating festering grounds for them to eventually take to action and cause real world harm. It's like what that one bartender mentioned for why he always kicks out neo-Nazis. If you don't, eventually they bring in their friends and their friends of friends and soon enough you have a neo-Nazi bar and you can't kick them out without causing trouble.




There is no solution.

How do I break up with someone because I'm unhappy without harming them?

I can't. It just is. Some things just are.

The parents would never have suffered that particular harm if they were disallowed from having children. Is that a solution? It seems a rather effective solution to this particular problem.

Or maybe we can agree that things such as freedom has inherent risks involved and we should seek to mitigate where practical rather than solving it.

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I mean, I could go on. boys going through puberty can sometimes be embarrassed by unplanned erections in school. Removing them from school would solve the problem, should we do it?


The solutions are to convince the center, succeed at reform through protest and politics, and maybe, as necessary, go further through grassroots action. Just like the women who won the ability to vote, for example. Actual activism still works, although it requires doing a little more than sitting on your couch crying to the government to make the bad ideas go away




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