Greetings Epicmafia community,
I've been wanting to make this thread for a while but haven't until now because I believed it to be a tad too risque.
Many countries have laws prohibiting the denial of the Holocaust (the genocide of Jews, Poles and other Slavic peoples, Soviet POWs, Romanis, communists, homosexuals, Freemasons, Jehovah's Witnesses and the mentally and physically disabled by Germany). Many countries have even broader laws which ban genocide denial in general.
In Germany for example, 'Volksverhetzung' is a concept in German criminal law that bans Holocaust denial. In addition, 'Strafgesetzbuch' outlaws various symbols of "unconstitutional organisations" such as the Swastika and the SS runes. Offenders who break these laws shall be liable to imprisonment from anywhere between three months and five years.
I'm not here to take either side in the debate, I would simply like to hear Sandbox's opinions on the matter.
Is this an ethical thing to do? Should people be able to be persecuted by law for simply holding beliefs?