In the Soviet Union, Christians were at times oppressed and murdered by the state. It's extremely hard to suppose this fact would have made it impermissible for Russian academics to argue for atheism or for a secular state.https://twitter.com/insidehighered/status/1156245568848637962 …
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Ophelia Benson & I talk about this general issue at some length in "Does God Hate Women?", where the context is a feminist criticism of Islam. If it were true that such a criticism made things worse for Muslims would that make the criticism morally impermissible?
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I don't have a copy of the book, so I'm not able to provide a reference, but not surprisingly we concluded that it remains permissible. I do think you have to factor in consequences as part of a moral calculus, but only in very unusual circumstances would silence be required.
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