Maher

Can the expression of controversial political ideas threaten another's safety?

Why or why not? 

This is a serious question. 

There are sort of two dimensions to someone's personality.  There's the face they put forward, and then there's the shadow side that only rarely sees expression.  The face people put forward is usually the one that you see the most.  They put effort into cultivating a sense of their decency, good nature, and inclination towards doing those things that are right.  Human beings are much more complex than that, though.  Our shadow sides are our basest impulses.  It's the "Mr. Hyde" to all of our Dr. Jekyll.  But, the fact that you saw a person's shadow side doesn't mean that that's who they are, because the fact that there are two sides implies that personality isn't merely so unidimensional as being limited only to the face people put forward, or the shadow.  Personality is both.