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Clubber on May 18, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: How much should you criticize other people?

>write manifestos saying they want to harm people?

Hopefully we don't arrest people for writing things. We should arrest people for actions, not thoughts. Arresting people for thoughts is .. thoughtcrime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime

BeetleB on May 18, 2022 | [–]

I've known people arrested for writing content for Al-Qaeda.

(They didn't write content for Al-Qaeda, but they were accused and arrested for it).

WhyOhWhyQ on May 18, 2022 | [–]

People should be arrested for "Thoughtcrime" if their thought crime is the assertion that they are about to kill people.

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