CMV: It is Never Okay to Assault Anyone for Their Opinion, Even if They are Nazis

If you have a person living in your building who has previously threatened you, then assaulted you, then killed your family members. If this person walks up to you and starts threatening you, are you going to respond meekly?

Does his right to freedom of speech allow him to say this with no response from you? Knowing full well he has violated your personal safety in the most brutal manner. I strongly believe that it would be hard for any judge or jury to find for the man who threatened you verbally, given the history.

Now let's take the example of someone proclaiming National Socialism, Aryan race, untermensch extermination et al. How is this different from the example above? The prime difference being that true Nazism is a social construct, like almost everything else. As such it takes time to grow, and it takes time to destroy. Make no mistake, that belief structure has no place in any kind of society of even vaguely civilized states as we live in now. It is inimical, implacable and unswayable. It can not be negotiated, reasoned, or compromised with. It is an evil that we as a species have a duty to root out every time it rears its head.

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