> and it's a bizarre insinuation that they don't exist
The problem is, if you carry this idea out to it's conclusion then it would be a rational act to jail someone merely for the thoughts they have; if we could in some way prove what they were thinking in a court of law.
> Mass shootings are preceded by ideations of committing a mass shooting [...] Dangerous ideas.
There are dangerous _people_ with the means to act upon these thoughts, but the ideas aren't exclusive to them. There are plenty of people who have such ideations but do not act upon them. People play FPS video games where these actions are not only thinkable but can be simulated. The idea itself clearly does not pose a danger to anyone.
> to accept that they exist is to approve of censorship
It's not censorship on a private platform I'm concerned with, as I've said it's the exceptional governmental and psychiatric injustices that become possible if you begin to accept this as a basic premise.
>The problem is, if you carry this idea out to it's conclusion then it would be a rational act to jail someone merely for the thoughts they have
No it wouldn't. Moreover, whether or not you find the ramifications of a fact distasteful has no bearing on the validity of that fact. As I already said, that's not how it works.
The ideas that are entertained while playing video games are not the same as entertaining the idea of performing a real-life shooting. People playing the video game aren't planning a real shooting, and planning a real shooting involves ideas that are not held by a typical person playing GTA 5. It's really an easy distinction.
The problem is, if you carry this idea out to it's conclusion then it would be a rational act to jail someone merely for the thoughts they have; if we could in some way prove what they were thinking in a court of law.
> Mass shootings are preceded by ideations of committing a mass shooting [...] Dangerous ideas.
There are dangerous _people_ with the means to act upon these thoughts, but the ideas aren't exclusive to them. There are plenty of people who have such ideations but do not act upon them. People play FPS video games where these actions are not only thinkable but can be simulated. The idea itself clearly does not pose a danger to anyone.
> to accept that they exist is to approve of censorship
It's not censorship on a private platform I'm concerned with, as I've said it's the exceptional governmental and psychiatric injustices that become possible if you begin to accept this as a basic premise.