• Ginny [they/she]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 month ago

    So if someone says something racist or transphobic, I can kill them, right?

    Or perhaps what constitutes a violation of the social contract and what constitutes an appropriate penalty is actually not simple.

    To provide a concrete example; the Catholic church, as an organisation, doesn’t like trans people. What would tolerance being denied to the Catholic church look like in your world?

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      1 month ago

      Something something due process, proportionality principle, etc. This isn’t exactly trivial, but that first rule does help in determining who is the one infringing. To start with, both starting shit as well as unjustified escalation are both punishable.

      • Ginny [they/she]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1 month ago

        It doesn’t really help in determining who is doing the infringing either. There are places where saying “from the river to the sea” would be considered to be infringing on the social contract. And given that the social contract is a social construct, who’s to say they’re wrong?