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>> nobody is going to jail for their heretical opinions. They can have privileges revoked or be passed over for promotion or advancement, but that's how organizing people to do hard things has always worked.

That's because no trials are held in modern mob justice for heretics. The mob justice punishments are more like lynchings.

Medieval heretics could at least expect a "witch hunt"-style trial. The monarchy or church was the authority and there was a semblance of rule of law.

Modern heretics face mob justice by self-appointed vigilantes and mob justice punishments. The lack of due process is concerning.



They are not like lynchings in one pretty fundamental way, ie they are not being lynched.




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