A lie repeated a thousand times does not, by virtue of repetition, become the truth.
That thousands of people will sign an open letter that proclaims a human being guilty based on twisted pseudo-evidence says more about their respect for due process, fair trials, justice and science, than about the human being they seek to burn at the stake. Do they even know who Galileo Galilei and Giordano Bruno were?
Burning witches after a kangaroo court-styled mob trial does not signal virtue, but rather the lack thereof.
Richard Stallman may be hard to like and to work with. His extreme attention to detail and to language can be infuriating. His urges to get back to work for free software, picking up and directing his attention to a screen at a dinner table long before that became fashionable, has often been labeled disrespectful. His harshness and often tactless disregard for social conventions can be emotionally hard to swallow and forgive, even with a rational understanding of his condition.
But these are not horrifying allegations that would serve the purpose of misleading decent people into the moral panic that leads to witch burning. The
— source fsfla.org | Alexandre Oliva | 2021-03-28
