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There is a middle ground between "sending people to camps for a wrong joke" and "no one should be held accountable for any of their actions if they claim they are jokes"



A joke is not an action. It can never bring harm to another person.


Here's an NIH paper going over the harms this brings to other people:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4659767/


There is no yet identified metaphysical difference between speech and other actions, and freedom of expression laws frequently also protect non-speech actions such as burning flags.


"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will really hurt me"




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