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meri_dian

Tell that to the victims of the Holocaust

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Would you please not take HN into the bowels of internet flamewar? Of all the things we don't need here.

Sorry dang

Last I checked, guns and gas killed them.

Why were those guns and gas used? Because of the hateful rhetoric of an evil man and an evil ideology.

Speech didn't kill them a single bit more than water did, if you're using that logic:

What killed Holocaust victims? Gas. Why did they let that happen? Because the people forcing them to go in had guns. Why did they force them? Because they worked under a man who commanded that they be killed. How was he alive? Because he drank water, preventing him from dying of dehydration.

I guess we're both right then

So there wasn't torture destruction and murder on a mass scale before guns?

Humanity works itself into a fervor of anger sometimes. That is what kills people. The implements of anger are irrelevant.

Speech cannot directly kill anything. Guns, however, can.

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