Climate Change Denial - should it be treated the same way as Holocaust Denial?
CumbrianLefty:
Quote from: Mr. Ukucasha on October 03, 2022, 05:56:29 AM
No. There is a 99% chance climate change is real and not believing in it does not automatically make one a bad person (they could just be seriously misinformed). There is a 100% chance the Holocaust happened and not believing it happened makes one a bad person in most cases (perhaps some are good people who are just gullible and have been duped by neo-Nazi misinformation/propaganda)
On balance, this is probably a reasonable position.
What surely remains the case, though, is that CCD should be more "discouraged" than it currently is.
Antonio the Sixth:
I do think deliberately spreading false scientific information (if it can be proven to be deliberate, of course) should be criminalized, yes. I don't know how else to prevent our complete collapse into a post-truth society at this point.
Lord Halifax:
Socially? Yes, definitely. Legally? Depends. It should be treated like a hate crime against humanity (the continued existence and well being of the human race), so if a country has hate crime legislation it should apply, if the country doesn't then there should be no legal consequences apart from a ban on spreading false scientific information.
Sol:
In the sense that it should be legal but insanely socially stigmatized, yes.
Ferguson97:
Yes. Those who espouse such beliefs should a) be protected by freedom of speech laws and b) routinely mocked, shamed, and derided by the rest of society.
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