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Vanto:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52674809

Funny how Germany has tried so hard to not go Nazi again... and yet just can't resist restricting people's rights.

DarkPhoenix:
Makes perfect sense to me.  They decided that just outlawing the burning of German flags and only German flags didn't make sense, so burning flags period is outlawed.

dpareja:
Denmark takes the opposite approach (to what Germany used to take): they only outlaw burning non-Danish flags. Burning the Danish flag is free speech, period, full stop. Burning other flags, on the other hand, potentially impacts on Danish foreign policy, which is an exclusive prerogative of the government.

Eiki-mun:

--- Quote from: Vanto on May 15, 2020, 11:16:41 pm ---https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52674809

Funny how Germany has tried so hard to not go Nazi again... and yet just can't resist restricting people's rights.

--- End quote ---

Not a fan of your insinuation that modern-day Germany is just oh-so-tempted to rip off the mask and unfurl the swastika again and that they have to physically try not to do so. No one in Germany or in any other country for that matter (with the United States as the sole exception) has the "right" to burn a national symbol in effigy. There's no "right" there to restrict.

While we're here I would just like to ask, why are you so eager to toss out the Nazi card the moment the German government does something you don't like? Like, you didn't even wait a post.

Sigmaleph:

--- Quote from: DarkPhoenix on May 15, 2020, 11:35:58 pm ---Makes perfect sense to me.  They decided that just outlawing the burning of German flags and only German flags didn't make sense, so burning flags period is outlawed.

--- End quote ---

Consistency is not that much of a virtue when what you're consistent about is a bad idea in the first place.

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