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> If someone is so ignorant or intent that they take an unlawful action due to spoken or written word,

Speech and words can be loaded with ideological stances. Those can amount to political violence over time, and normalize such against others.

Speech and words aren't passive, but rather loaded ideologically and politically.

This doesn't begin to decant the fallacy of "unlawful."

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Can you provide the definition of "decant" you're using? I'm having trouble finding one that fits the context.

Empty out, drain, etc.

The hidden ideological ground that all laws are ethical and just at any given point in history is absurd.

The whole point of the previous post is literally that one law (prohibition of "inciting a riot") is unethical, so the claim that they're saying that "all laws are ethical and just" is simply absurd.

> If someone is so ignorant or intent that they take an unlawful action due to spoken or written word, they had problems before.

See 'unlawful', which is difficult to unpack to "some laws" or worse "not all laws", agree?

Along these lines, my point was that racism, bigotry, homo/transphobia is a cultural byproduct of an accumulation of speech and text that may be politically violent.

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