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So next time some public figure gets outed as a considerer of heretical thoughts, as will surely happen, know that I am already against all calls to punish them for it, even if I am not brave enough to publicly stand up for them at the time.
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I have some exception around sharing (actual real, like damaging to the listener) info hazards without consent, but if everyone involved consents, this still seems good to me.
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And btw, I am under no illusion that my ideology does not bid to make certain thoughts heretical, I oppose this too, more vehemently even. But I am also under no illusion that my ideology is just as bad on this front as any other, because it isn't.
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you're now making proclaiming heresy heretical also, isn't heresy sensu lato just a label to describe opposition to orthodoxy like 'protestant', but exonym
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1) No I am not. 2) No it isn't. The way I use it, it means more than that. It's the sort of thought that pearl clutchers clutch their pearls about, and the sort of thought that tattle tales love to tattle about, and the sort of thought that the mob gets off to persecuting.
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Heresy is necessary because just one dogmatically enforced false belief can ruin an epistemic environment. One false dogma requires a whirlwind of irrationality to protect.
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Is there a difference between no thought being heretical and no speech being heretical in your view? I am of the opinion that no thought should be off limits but the same isn't necessarily true of speech, but I'll have to think more on whether that's consistent
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