Reply #58: That has got to be the most absurd thing that I have read... [View All]

...in quite some time.

Should people who deny evolution be sent to prison? What about people who advocate homeopathy? What about people who like a different kind of ice cream than you do?

It's a free-speech issue. More than that, it's about being free to think what one wants. If we start locking up everyone who doesn't think exactly the way we do, then not only are we going to be looking at an even more serious prison crowding problem (which is already serious), but we're going to be abridging some pretty fundamental human rights.

Look, I think people who deny the existence of global warming are wrong. Likewise, I think that people who are holocaust deniers are wrong as well, but I really don't think that we should be shipping them off to Guantanamo.

Moreover, your analogy is rather poor. People who deny global warming don't accept that there is a fire in the first place. You might wonder how people can not accept that given the preponderance of the evidence, but being stupid and/or stubborn is not a criminal offense. If it were, I imagine that we would of all been locked up at some point.