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> Try calling a cop a “pig” to their face. At least where I live in Europe you aren't allowed to insult people and you can get fined for it. Be it a police off
by lwkl 6mo ago
> Try calling a cop a “pig” to their face.
At least where I live in Europe you aren't allowed to insult people and you can get fined for it. Be it a police officer or a any other person.
- ryukoposting 6mo agoI cannot imagine living in a place where I can't tell someone what I think of them once in a while.
- maest 6mo agoYou can tell them they are doing a shameful job or that you disagree with their actions or whatever. You just can't _insult_ them like a 6 year old on a playground. Why is the ability to do so valuable to you?
- malcolmgreaves 6mo agoThe first thing you described is an insult.
- maest 6mo agoNo, an insult implies insolence, rudeness, condescension, insensitivity. You can communicate a dim view of someone without being rude.
- Shocka1 6mo ago> You can communicate a dim view of someone without being rude. I would agree in theory, but whom is the judge of whether communicating that dim view is an insult or not?
- eudamoniac 6mo agoIt is viscerally against my cultural upbringing for the government to make illegal a verbal insult, it seems like an incredible overreach. I'm genuinely culture shocked hearing this. I'd be no more shocked hearing that it's illegal to dye one's hair.
- maest 6mo agoFyi, insults are illegal in the US, under certain conditions, under the fighting words doctrine.
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- nirava 6mo agobeing fined != physical, possibly fatal violence with body-cam turned off and irrevocable immunity