You can measure the level of intolerance in a society by whether you can say that there are things that are true, but that you can't say. Every society I know of has had them. When the fact that yours has them becomes one of them, you've reached level 2.
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Why don’t you just say it and deal with the consequences?
Well, one reason is that you could get killed. Someone in Saudi Arabia who had doubts about religion, for example, would be ill advised to just say it and deal with the consequences.
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I feel like she was talking about you paul.
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There is no "it." I'm not thinking of any particular heresy, but about heresy in general.
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One reason you should say it and deal with it, is better explained by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ― “One man who stopped lying could bring down a tyranny.”
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Are you saying there's a true thing you fear would get you killed it you said it?
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