[dmitrygr]

Nothing scares me more than thinking that you might actually mean this.

The mobs are not always in the right, no matter how large a majority they have.

Everyone in power at the time "censored "Giordano Bruno. He must have been hella toxic, according to you.

[jfengel]

He was, actually. He got into fights with pretty much everybody -- and not just people in power.

The story is about a billion times more complicated than "the church burned him to hide the truth about science". He was, indeed, a heretic, as the Church defined it, and "science" had little to nothing to do with it.

That does not, of course, justify any of what happened to Bruno. But the oft-repeated story of "Giordano Bruno died so that I could have an all-purpose martyr for anything I want to disagree with" is false. It's worth reading a biography, or at least the Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno

[type0]

> The mobs are not always in the right, no matter how large a majority they have.

Sometimes those are the only in the right (or should I say left) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolsheviks