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Do you truly believe losing your life is the worst thing that could happen?
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I don't think that losing the life is the worst thing.
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And do you really think things are better off because we don't burn heretics at the stake anymore?
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Yes, I think it is progress not to burn heretics anymore, do you disagree (maybe it might make academia a bit more exciting)?
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If Jesus Christ lived today he wouldn't be executed. He would simply be drowned out by all the shallow, mass produced infotainment.
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He would probably found a sect somewhere and find followers.
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Conspiracy theories aside, they were both killed because they posed a threat to somebody. Just like historical example you care to give.
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They actually are historic examples. Especially Gandhi didn't live in a western style democracy.
Martin Luther King also wasn't accepted as someone who was a real citizin in his time. He wasn't only murdered because he said something controversial but because he was black and said something controversial.
I think that we also made progress in the last forty year on that front.
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If the early 1900s were like today, he would have never had a chance.
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Einstein didn't get much help in before 1905 when he did produce something either.
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Good point! Now you understand why I don't see academia as any sort of shining beacon of hope.
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You can open doors regardles of your position or the help you become when you have something to eat and something to write. A lot of influential ideas in the 20th century got developed in prison where people have a lot of time on their hands to think.
The problem is that a lot of people don't care to listen. Not because of money or because of pressure from the government but because they don't care.