Nowhere do they advocate shutting you up or using the government to curtail other religion's rights by law.
Jonathan Dough, as I said- There are no easy answers.
They do advocate shutting me up TO MY FAMILY if I say anything against them. Yet they are free to demonize me.
They do advocate governmental curtailing of other religions' rights. It's just that they are advocating the removal of current governments and obeying the government that they subscribe to- the supposed theocracy. I think the problem here is our view of the situation. People are free to believe that the government should be changed or abandoned. People should be free to talk of a revolution. But the WTS is not about restoring people's rights, they are about enslaving people. Even there, it's tough to say they should lose their "rights." But now remember that WTS is a religion with tax exemptions. Sometimes, it's easier to see the problem if you take a similar example: It's one thing to say that a group in the United States has the right to advocate Communism and overthrow of the government, but it would be another thing to say that they have the right to sell pamphlets and books door-to-door that spout hatred and make millions of dollars on the backs of their "volunteers" and do it all tax-free. I know we have to argue whether the pamphlets spout hatred. Debate on that is good.
But this is EXACTLY what the Nazis preached. Listen to yourself. They have the right, as distasteful as it is. You're no better than they are if you ban them.
You compare me to the Nazis because I see that government is responsible for safety and should have the power to do something. You don't want to debate, you just subscribe to an anarchy that everyone is free to do what they think is best. I support peoples' rights to believe in things I don't believe in. I don't ask that WTS advocates be imprisoned or shot. Another example: those fringe Mormon groups that advocate polygamy and child-marriage. Government steps in because they are a danger to children. Well, some of us say that dangerous cults are a danger to children even if they don't rape them.
Sure, we will argue about "just how far" government should go in the name of public safety. There is a danger that they will go too far on a witch hunt. First they go after the JW's then they go after all religious groups that disagree with the majority. That danger exists. It's important to monitor the situation.
If you support their "right" to say what they say, you should equally support my right to call for a ban, but just argue against the ban itself without resorting to attacking me.
It's hypocritical to deny them their rights.
Clearly, from the content of the rest of that paragraph, we will remain at a point of disagreement. I can respect that without calling you "no better than [the Nazis]" or a facist or a communist. I don't advocate banning your name-slinging because you are not teaching hate and implanting fear to make your point (although that could be argued). The JW's as individuals are not bad at everything they do. Nobody is suggesting banning the individuals their rights. The ban is against the evil organization. WTS is too much bad. Government would not let a corporation sell literal poison to the public, so we are free to debate and take sides on whether government should let people sell clear mind poison to people. Sure, we will always have disagreements about what is clear mind poison. That doesn't make us Nazis, facists, or communists to disagree and argue on that.
You end with a what I can view as reasonable compromise. I respect that you feel there is a line to cross and that they haven't crossed it yet. Can you respect that others disagree about where the line should be? Last example: Some people feel that the U.S. is going way too far in establishing a Food and Drug Administration to slow down the introduction of new drugs and make safe food distribution more costly. There will always be arguments about just how far they should go. Arguments of this sort are fine, but those that believe the FDA should stay in operation are not Nazis.
