On the sickness of our community

Posted Oct 27, 2014 15:46 UTC (Mon) by nye (subscriber, #51576)
In reply to: On the sickness of our community by dlang
Parent article: On the sickness of our community

>If the actions that they take are all legal (and voting or contributing to political campaigns is legal), then you can oppose them, but calling for them to be cast out of society in response to a vote or a personal contribution to any political campaign is not just opposing them.

Okay, this is beyond a joke now. Your position is *insane*. Your circular arguments make no sense.

1) Calling for them to be cast out of society: this has never happened.

2) What is your definition of "opposed"? I can't find any possible meaning that would exclude public condemnation, without being so narrow that it is essentially vacuous ("opposing" something only inside your own mind is not opposition).

3) Let's take your straw man and run with it: if somebody calls for another to be "cast out of society", they are doing nothing illegal. Your argument amounts to "anything that's not actually illegal should not be publicly condemned", so you have already broken your own position by claiming that it is wrong for people to be allowed to speak out against tyranny.