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When is hate, voiced and aggressively acted out, not a crime victimizing all us criminals, convicted and otherwise? Should we criminalize fear of fundamentalists or anger about presumably predative aliens or anxiety about internal and external climate changes or worry about long-term costs compared to short-term benefits of violent revolutions in lives outside our narrow ego walls? How does criminalizing hate deter or feed it? Does punishment for aggressively articulated bad attitudes merely add hostile fuel to short-fused flames? Would active hate fade away if criminalization evaporated? Would love grow easier if colonizing bullies, with bibled GoodNews liberating intentions, returned to creolization supporting naturally polypathic children daily longing for reborn WinWin multicultural Trust? PreHate children prefer co-empathic PositiveParadise and not so much loseLose hellfire breathing hate projected onto a jealous all-powerful ecopolitical yet personal ForceSource. What about crimes other than hate, motivated by greed or need, or something in-between? I would not know how to criminalize my rampant raving revolutionary needs. But your greed remains better locked up for stealing our properties and too loudly proclaiming me your stupid and deluded chattel at your greediest disposal except for my inconvenient properties, transparently vulnerable needs to eat and drink to taste and see nutritious GoodFaith Integrity. When, if ever, is active hate not a crime against health? When criminals, like greedy us, are free to return polypathic love to grow toward co-empathic trust in our cooperatively nurturing mutual listening non-threatening and non-bullying mutual infatuation, curiosity, co-redeeming grace of mutual invitation into shared trust democratic space. A place not feeding prisons while watering polypathic free-range love.
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