What&#x27;s funny to me is the person probably doesn&#x27;t even realize that&#x27;s part of the problem they are supposedly against; or scarily they might. Hate speech laws are just used to justify punishing people you don&#x27;t like or wish to control. Anybody who says a person should be punished for what they say or be punished for what a different person does after hearing speech is a dangerous person.<p>Imagine how easily punishing someone for the actions of another based on what the criminal allegedly heard could be abused? Have a critic to a high-ranking government employee? Just get someone to go out and commit crimes claiming they only did it because of the critic&#x27;s speech. Bam! Instance silencing of the critic.<p>But I&#x27;m sure in this age of enlightened human beings that kind of thing would never happen.