Personally, being shot for speaking an inconvenient truth sounds like an appropriate death for me, and I’m happy to endorse the stronger version that you seem to be arguing against.
The litany is vague enough that I don’t buy into your interpretation, seems like a linguistic disagreement. I see it purely being centered around belief updating on part of the individual but there are other inaccurate ways of twisting those words, which I have fallen for in the past.
Much of what is true is not known; Much of what is known is not true.
In an imaginary society of infinitely tolerant people.
As far as you are concerned.
What others do not know about, they cannot interact with.
That’s why no one ever got shot for speaking an inconvenient truth.
I think the litany is about belief, not speech.
Personally, being shot for speaking an inconvenient truth sounds like an appropriate death for me, and I’m happy to endorse the stronger version that you seem to be arguing against.
The litany is vague enough that I don’t buy into your interpretation, seems like a linguistic disagreement. I see it purely being centered around belief updating on part of the individual but there are other inaccurate ways of twisting those words, which I have fallen for in the past.
Since it is terrible advice about public speech, it could do with a waning that it is only about private belief.