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You have trouble understanding what I'm writing. Hate is just an emotion, you can't ban an emotion you can ban some bad expressions of an emotion (threats of violence for example) but to try and make one of the basic human emotions illegal online is idiotic.


I see you don't understand what I am writing as well.

I don't write anything about banning or making emotions illegal.

It is just that I can't see how someone can get angry about something someone wrote somewhere on the internet.

Other thing I am writing about is that expressing anger or negative emotions online is not productive and is scaring away people who could contribute to the discussion.


My OP about demonizing hatred is about baning 'toxicity', 'hate' etc. that serves only as a rationalization of violence or exclusion. There is no rule we have to be productive all the time, but hatred can be a great motivator, there are books, games and music that grew out of some very intense hatred.

>It is just that I can't see how someone can get angry about something someone wrote somewhere on the internet.

Can you see how someone gets angry about something off the internet? It's exactly the same except some non-verbal actions are not possible for expressing that anger.




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