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  • This really is the key. The question, in my opinion, is not whether the person is nuts or not but if their belief, condition, behavior is so strong that it affects their life in a detrimental way. If it does then it’s a disorder and they need help to get their life back on track. If not, well, their life is alright and not affecting anyone else in a detrimental way? They are free to live out their life as they want to











  • The way I think about it is that all the individual atoms of the wheel wants to move in a straight line. The only reason the wheel doesn’t fall apart normally when it turns is that the material is strong enough to hold itself together. However as it spins faster and faster it requires more and more strength to keep itself together and at some point it moves so fast that the internal strength of the material is not strong enough to pull itself away from this straight line, which causes it to break.


  • Denmark doesn’t have unrestricted free speech. Censorship is against the constitution but hate speech, inciting violence or defamation is illegal and until 2017 blasphemy was illegal. There is some legal basis for punishing speech that is bringing the country into danger or is severely insulting another nation. I am not a lawyer so I don’t know if it’s applicable or if it will hold up in court.

    Note that the government does not want to ban burning books. Just prevent/punish doing it as a provocation against another country.

    I also want to stress that I am not defending the Danish government or the book burners. I just want to bring some needed nuance to the discussion