A poster here going around yelling "Women are universally evil! Someone needs to do something about it!" is thoughtcrime. He's (possibly) thinking of crimes, but there's no impetus, no action. It's a vague "someone" in question.
But the posts given, those are a call to action. Conspiracy to commit a crime is a crime in itself, and isn't thoughtcrime because it involves visible clear preparation steps to commit the crime. And those posts are grooming, they're clear preparation steps to commit a crime. Which makes them a crime.
It is important to be against thought-crime. But it is also important to know when something exceeds just thought.
Thought-crime is thought-crime.
This is an action. It is seeking something.
A poster here going around yelling "Women are universally evil! Someone needs to do something about it!" is thoughtcrime. He's (possibly) thinking of crimes, but there's no impetus, no action. It's a vague "someone" in question.
But the posts given, those are a call to action. Conspiracy to commit a crime is a crime in itself, and isn't thoughtcrime because it involves visible clear preparation steps to commit the crime. And those posts are grooming, they're clear preparation steps to commit a crime. Which makes them a crime.
It is important to be against thought-crime. But it is also important to know when something exceeds just thought.