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And it's probably worth considering that democracy after the forties in Germany includes Strafgesetzbuch §86a.

>>shadow+(OP)
Notably this law perpetuates on a daily basis the Nazis' coercive and violent appropriation of a number of traditional religious and cultural symbols, and with it their unnatural exploitation as emblems of the most evil and despicable ideas ever contrived in modern history. All things considered, a very fitting example of parent poster's point.

>>zozbot+J1
> unnatural

There's nothing natural or unnatural about human interpretation of abstract symbols.

>>shadow+I2
Indeed; there's nothing "natural" either about taking a symbol that has literally been used from time immemorial throughout the Northern hemisphere (including in Europe up until the early 20th c.!) and treating it as an inherent reference to a bunch of folks who anyone sensible regards as enemies of everything that civilized society stands for. But that's not what one would assume, given that this law exists!

>>zozbot+J4
Unfortunately, law exists because we cannot rely on only what the sensible people do and understand.