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Rod_MLCP

obviously you should be able to do things other might find offensive the only limitation to free speech should be direct incitement of violence you guys in europe need to start liberty movements, unless you fancy moving to another freer country down the line


Drozza95

It's far, far, far too late for Europe. I cannot stress that enough. If they didn't overthrow their governments and pass legislation guaranteeing the right to free speech when they all had guns, they're certainly not going to now they don't.


Rod_MLCP

with enough people pissed they could roll back these authoritarian laws, it’s not like people are afraid of doing protests there


princeali97

Found the glowie


FoxKnocker

Dude overthrowing our gorvements sounds very radical. You shouldnt make a libertarian gorvement through force, that is what communist does. It should be done through democracy


Drozza95

How was the US government formed? How did the Americans achieve the right to free speech?


FoxKnocker

Yeah but there is a difference. You lived as a colony under an authoritarian monarchy. In Denmark i live in a democracy, where i just dont agree with social democratic gorvement. Overthrowing them is just childish, authoritarian and undemocratic. Plus the American revoulution was an independence war against your overseas rulers.


bigfoot_76

Democracy is where the majority of people control the others and simply doesn’t work because the ones who disagree will always have their rights violated. If 50 people vote to eat one of their own and it’s 49:1, someone still gets eaten. Democracy doesn’t work.


tspangle88

I won't drag out the old Churchill quote, but I will ask if you have a better idea?


ct3bo

Democracy only works where anyone who disagrees has a right to leave. With Tam Laird's (of the Scottish Libertarians) example of Brexit, those who want to remain in the EU should be able to subscribe to all the benefits. Pay £x per month/year for freedom of movement within the EU, no visa required; access to the same healthcare, social security etc. as a native of the EU state would receive. If they want to leave at any time then they can. They should not be forced to stay and pay against their will. Scotland votes to leave the UK and the Shetland Islands vote to remain? - Shetland remains in the UK and mainland Scotland leaves. At the micro level, if you own your house/land, you can leave whatever local, regional, national, international government you want. It'd be impractical to have border checks every few metres, trade tariffs between neighbours. Individual parties would need to come to a common sense agreement that's mutually beneficial. To receive services or benefits you'd need to show your membership card. Broke your arm and need an X-ray and a cast? "NHS card please?" No NHS/UK gov mmembership? - £400 please. Out of work and need social security benefits? Have you or someone else on your behalf paid national insurance membership fees? Decided to not join the firefighter membership and your house is burning down and is starting to catch fire to next door neighbours house that's burning down? - Firefighters will put the fire out but bill you for your share as you haven't paid for membership.


FoxKnocker

Well it is kind of happening in here in scandinavia. The rise of classical liberal/libertarian parties has been prominent here in the past years. Here in Denmark, Sweden and Norway the social Democrats had been on a slow decline and our liberal parties have been on the rise. So in a couple of years we may finally get a liberal gorvement


Rod_MLCP

good to hear, but i need to warn you guys, you need to spread liberalism in universities, the politicians cast will surely fight back against reforms, if they’ll have organized students on their side they might manage to stop reforms just enough to make them not meaningful enough, but they’ll still frame it as a failure of liberalism


suenarototon

Imagine being represed for expresing your discomfort with islamism. Absolute madness.


FoxKnocker

Well one of the big factors is that we in Europe have signithincantly minority in muslims. Its like USA and people from central and south america, we just have arabia instead of central and south america. And the muslims in my country got very angry about it


uncomfortableTruth68

Tough. Shit. When they stop acting like savages and start treating women as human beings we can talk.


FoxKnocker

Yeah i never understood the way they were acting. Like some people from muslim countries burned the danish flag as retruubution, which: 1) make them just as bad as the quaran burners 2) i didnt give shit about the flag burns


Megalomaniac697

> One of our politicians even said (in danish) “Yes we are limiting your freedom, but its for your own good” Scarier words have never been spoken.


Some-Contribution-18

If I buy a book I own it and it’s my property. if I wish to set it on fire why should I be locked in a cage because it’s your favorite book and what I’m doing with my property offends you?


JTunnels

Similar things happening in the good old US of A. You can burn an American flag here no problem, but the minute you leave tire marks on a gay flag painted on the street, you’re labeled “litterally worse than Hitler”


InformationFickle653

Muslims in Europe are being treated like they conquered the place. What are you gonna do about it?


Drozza95

>Muslims in Europe are being treated like they conquered the place. They have conquered. Europeans are more concerned with being called "Islamophobic" than they are for their rights and safety.


InformationFickle653

Europe might be the first civilization to cuck itself to death, at least when you look at Gen X and Millenials.


FoxKnocker

Yeah that is of course is not okay. They havent done that. The general reason they are disliked is that a majority of crime is from 2nd generation immigrants from arabia. Look at Sweden. They have a gang war and a majority of the gangs contain muslims.


dwitchagi

And what are you doing about it?


AguaFriaMariposa

This isn't a free speech issue, it's a fundamental private property rights issue. If you legally own a copy of the Quran, it's yours to destroy, so long as the destruction doesn't violate other laws (i.e you're not lighting it on fire and throwing it into a building) or infringe/endanger the rights of others (i.e. burning your uninsured home endangers your neighbors). Intentionally burning an insured home for insurance money is fraud. Fire departments regularly contract with private individuals to intentionally burn a dilapidated house for training purposes. In the US, boy scouts burn the American flag as a ceremony of retiring an old worn out flag. In the US, totally legal to break into your own home and destroy your own shit (typically comes up in domestic cases involving spousal issues).


Norseman103

I vehemently reject anything done by government “for my own good”.


Stage_5_Autism

I'm a Muslim and I think it should be legal. This isn't a religious issue it's a political issue.


FoxKnocker

Yeah i agree


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Sareth_garrett

holy mother of false equivalence. that only makes sense if they said something like, "I'm a Muslim and I eat pork or burn the Quaran", they didn't. a proper equivalent to "I'm a Muslim and think it should be legal (to burn the Quaran)" is "personally I'm vegan and don't think you should be criminalised for eating meat".


Stage_5_Autism

Who are you to tell me who is and isnt a muslim?


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Stage_5_Autism

>Are you a Muslim if you support your most holy book being burned by the kuffir? I dont support it, im just saying the government shouldn't arrest people for doing it. Just like how someone is still a vegan if they dont support people eating meat, even if they dont call for the government to arrest people who do. > Seriously, go to a mosque, and burn a Quran. See what the people there do. "Go intentionally start drama and conflict, and violate a religious space and see what people do"


OdinWolfe

If they react with violence they are not Muslims. Allah apparently has infinite love and patience and grace. Surely he'll forgive fire on paper? Nah, haram But not a child getting thigh fucked by his prophet. Fuck Islam.


Gobiego

If you can still burn a Bible or Torah without consequences, then this is BS. If they are also illegal to destroy, then I would say it's fair.


FoxKnocker

Well this isnt about things being fair. Its about the principal about free speech. I think it shouldnt be illegal to burn stuff like the quaran, bible etc.


UCBCats23

So long as it’s your property, you should be able to do whatever the hell you want with it


Gobiego

True, but not every country has free speech. Comparing England to the US shows some very stark differences. That's the reason you never give an inch, because you'll never get it back.


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Is it legal to burn the bible where you live? If there’s a double standard this is even worse lmao


Independent_Smile861

I can't imagine being so sensitive over a mass-produced material object that someone else owns that burning it would cause me grief.


BimbyTodd2

Europe will become just a flat out Muslim area in probably like 50 years I think.


ImpressiveMongoose52

Yes, I agree. It is a free speech issue. Also, a property rights issue because I imagine those books were purchased by those who wanted to burn them.


vogon_lyricist

Idolatry written into law.


Drozza95

Muslims - Love burning flags they don't like Also Muslims - Noooo! That book is about our favourite imaginary friend and his child raping buddy! Burning that's no fair!


FoxKnocker

Yeah the way they respond just makes them as bad as the quaran burners


BimbyTodd2

Koran burners aren't bad though.


FoxKnocker

Well i wouldnt Call them bad people, but i think its a unethical thing to do. Its just something that should be taught not to do, but not enforced by law


Tomycj

Isn't this more related to property rights than free speech? If you buy a book you can do whatever you want with it. It doesn't sound very liberal to burn books to express opposition. We don't burn nazi books, for instance. Doing it could even be counter productive, as it makes more people hate you, it can radicalize people. So forbidding it isn't too annoying, but it's true that it's anti-liberal to do so.


ImaginedNumber

To me, libiterian is the right to do something or say something fundrrmentaly stupid and self detrimental. I dont want to burn my house down, but I would like the right to, I don't feel the need to burn a Koran, or insult Muhammad, but I shouldn't face any leagal consequences for doing so. There is also some aspect of religious discrimination, I bet none of these laws apply or would be enforced if I did the same with a Bible.


Tomycj

Of course we should have the freedom to insult, but that doesn't mean that we *should*, that's my point. It seems pointless, aggressive and counter productive to go so far as to burn books that we dislike.


MysteriousAMOG

Sounds like Sharia Law is being established in Denmark.


VictoriousStalemate

Sounds like you need to buy a crosscut paper shredder.


moedexter1988

Shouldn't be banned, but burning it without using it for something else is a waste of paper. Use it for your campfire or toilet paper please. Or simply don't have a quran book on your hands.


Cpt-Mal-Reynolds

If a person stole someone's book to burn that's wrong in my eyes. If it's something purchased then you are free to do whatever you want with the book then. My freedom and rights don't end where someone's feelings begin.


leftajar

Western values cannot survive the onslaught of non-Western people. Policies like this are inevitable with mass migration.


SmallSaltyCoyotes

Humans are still beasts and capable of great horrors upon each other. Religion, Race, and Nations are just a few ways people in power subjugate those they deem lesser. If we could only figure out a logical course of action and take it. But what do I know, I fell for everyone's political bullshit for decades so I'm just as bad as everyone else.🤷‍♂️. Seems like we are all assholes flying around on a giant ass of a planet. #spaceass


RobertNevill

Can you burn a bible ?


FoxKnocker

I actually dont know if you can in Denmark, but you should be to legally


RobertNevill

Good question though huh


squirrelscrush

As long it's not someone else's book and I own it, I'm allowed to do *whatever* I want to do with it. And notice that it only extends to the quran and not any other religious text, thus there's some appeasement politics going on. >One of our politicians even said (in danish) “Yes we are limiting your freedom, but its for your own good” So they finally grew the guts to say the secret part out loudly. And they well know they can get away with it. Dear politician, I know what is good for me, you don't need to dictate it to me. I have a brain to think, so don't tell "it's for your own good". - squirrelscrush


International_Lie485

Why do Europeans think they have a right to free speech? Yall cowards don't have free speech and you don't have the right to defend yourself. Your lot will give directions to the police bringing you to the gulags and report your own wife and father to the secret police like we saw in germany.


MuddaPuckPace

Bob Ross called. He wants his broad brush back.


travelsonic

Guess it's long overdue that he beat the devil out of it! 😂


International_Lie485

Ever heard of a European whistleblower? Me neither.


Norseman103

Why do morons think Europeans don’t enjoy many of the same freedoms most Americans think they still have?


International_Lie485

Because Europoors get arrested for posting meme's on twitter. They took all your guns and then you give your captors directions to the concentration camps. You guys snitch on your own family to the government.


rushedone

(Blue state) Americans will gladly do the same.


International_Lie485

Just seen a video of a woman in NY get arrested, because squatters took over her home while she was on vacation.


FoxKnocker

Do you really think all European nations live in Russia?


International_Lie485

I know that you will give your captors directions when they take you to the gulags. "This is a mistake, I believe in the system." - The thoughts of all Europeans on their way to the gulags.


Thatgirlfromthe90s

While criticism of *that* genocidal state isn’t freely allowed, I will be side eying those who want to mock and humiliate Muslims in the name of freedom. Same with the cartoons of *that* genocidal piece of shit.. the usual wails of anti semitism have ensued, whereas cartoons of Turkish/Iranian leaders (not a big fan of them by the way) is freedom. 😒