At U.N., free speech divides West and Muslim nations

[DonCoquixote]

83. your quote, analyzed

"Your right to hate speech should not interfere with my right or anybody's right to lead a peaceful life free of people wanting to kill me because they are all psyched up on hate and anger and lies. But probably that concept escapes you. Please think about it some more."

Well, nor should the prejudices of other people that think that a gay person should be killed because they are gay.

Or women hurt because religion says they should be.

Or any number of example where religious fundamentalists show that their idea of a "peaceful life" includes the need to coerce, threaten and kill people.

If religion did not try to coerce others, than this discussion would be moot, but it does. Yes, most average people are not the rock throwers, but every religion stokes enough of them, and usually fall silent when asked to corral them in, citing their "right of religious freedom."

Tell a Gay person whose family shuns them to deal with it.

Tell a woman forced to bear a baby to deal with it.

I could go all night long, but I can do better. I quoted how France, one of those nations that had been discussing how to limit speech, wound up making life harder for Muslims. That is a majority's defaultposition will always be "whatever limits a minority is good." Your faith that safeguards can be put in that will NOT become a means of suppression is itself, an act of faith, do tell us HOW you would avoid it being just another toolfor a majority to oppress a minority. It is easy to simply call people who disagree with your point of view right wingers, it is another to put your actual ideas forward and take RESPONSIBILITY for them.