"Laws criminalising hate speech are inevitably vague and open to abuse. This is why authoritarian regimes are adopting them so eagerly." https://amp.economist.com/leaders/2019/08/17/as-societies-polarise-free-speech-is-under-threat-it-needs-defenders?__twitter_impression=true …
Any law proposing extra-tough punishment for some new extra-serious crime will immediately be co-opted by people who want to expand the definition of the crime in order to give more people the extra-tough punishments. You see the same thing with "terrorism."
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This logic hasn't worked well with involuntary commitment. See 55,000+ homeless in LA alone.
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