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The cost of an opinion
What is the cost of an opinion?
It could be a libel case with hundreds of thousands of pounds, or perhaps a smear campaign online trying to discredit you.
It could be nastier – you could be threatened with violence by your peers, your job could be threatened with a well placed and malicious complaint, or perhaps you will be told that someone knows where you live and will kill your family.
This is nothing new, people are often harassed for speaking out against the religions and belief-systems of others, or for doing or saying things that offend the traditions of other people. People have even been killed, imprisoned, harassed, stalked, beaten up, abused and more.
Yet atheists, secularists, non-believers, doubters, agnostics… they don’t go away. They don’t shut up. They don’t stop trying, they don’t stop speaking out, they never will.
Threaten to beat your school peers up, burn effigies, intimidate people by stopping their meetings, get books banned, try to rule other peoples lives through politics, but don’t ever expect those who doubt, who think, who speak out, to go away.
The cost of an opinion is high, it’s risky, but it’s never not worth it.
#atheistandproud
*I am aware that I live in an area where I wont be lynched for being atheist so it’s ‘easy’ for me to write, this, but I do so to show support for those currently being targeted by bigots.
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