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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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