Principles and Hate Speech
I joke about punching Nazis from time to time, but I also joke about running across the White House lawn without wearing pants. Neither of those things are likely to ever happen, and I don’t generally recommend people try it. In real life, if I ever punched anyone, they would have to be an imminent, immediate danger to myself, or the people around me. If I knew punching someone would prevent them from committing an immediate, imminent, and in-progress heinous…