When Archie Mackintosh opened his question for Kirk, he admitted he was a “little nervous”.
“There’s a real chance I could wake up tomorrow front page of YouTube: ‘Charlie Kirk owns manbun idiot with facts and logistics’,” he said.
Kirk jokingly suggested an alternative: “Destroys.”
The 23-year-old from Norfolk exchanged opinions on marriage and society generally. He said he had yet to process Kirk’s death.
“Despite the fact that I disagree with a lot of his opinions, maybe most of them, he was generally so driven about trying to make the world a better place in his eyes.”
Inflicting violence on someone you think is spreading harmful rhetoric, “will only turn them into a hero”, he added.
“I think it will make people think, ‘Wow’, they were speaking so much truth that they had to be silenced.
“Even if you’re 100% convinced that everything someone is saying will contribute negatively to the world, trying to silence them is not going to work.”