Telling someone to grab an electric fence is not violence by anyone’s standard. Nor is shouting fire. As a society, we have never considered those utterances to be violent crime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...
The only speech I would consider to even approach violence is a direct threat. And even that isn't really violence - it's the threat of violence.
And credible threats of violence aren't protected speech either.
Nitpick: It's not "Shouting fire in a crowded theater" it's "Falsely Shouting fire in a crowded theater"
If there were a fire, I'd certainly want to know about it, wouldn't you?
How does this contradict anything I said? I said it was not violent. It isn’t.
Shouting fire is speech. Shouting fire is illegal Violence is illegal. Therefore spec is violence.
I don't even know where to begin picking it apart. It has the -form- of an argument, but...
These are strange times.