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It's more like the police say they aren't enforcing minor drug crimes, but someone decides to protest by smoking weed in a police station while saying what an i

It's more like the police say they aren't enforcing minor drug crimes, but someone decides to protest by smoking weed in a police station while saying what an idiot the police chief is, and then gets arrested.

acqq 9y ago
More like: one famous weed smoker is smoking against the law, the law obviously doesn't forbid "talking that some people smoke" but the "normal people" who are actually found smoking (heretics) do rot in prisons or get executed. One famous weed smoker is protected by the police chief personally for some years... until he loses that protection. The actual parts of Galileo's sentence by the Inquisition: "because of the things deduced in the trial and confessed by you as above, have rendered yourself according to this Holy Office vehemently suspected of heresy, namely of having held and believed a doctine which is false and contrary to the divine and Holy Scripture: that the sun is the center of the world and does not move from east to west, and the earth moves and is not the center of the world, and that one may hold and defend as probable an opinion after it has been declared and defined contrary to Holy Scripture. Consequently you have incurred all the censures and penalties imposed and promulgated by the sacred canons and all particular and general laws against such delinquents." "so that this serious and pernicious error and transgression of yours does not remain completely unpunished, and so that you will be more cautious in the future and an example for others to abstain from similar crimes, we order that the book Dialogue by Galileo Galilei be prohibited by public edict." "We condemn you to formal imprisonment in this Holy Office at our pleasure." The rest of the sentence is equally very clear. See my other post or Wikipedia for the link. Pope John Paul II, 1992: "The error of the theologians of the time, when they maintained the centrality of the Earth, was to think that our understanding of the physical world's structure was, in some way, imposed by the literal sense of Sacred Scripture"

acqq 9y ago

More like: one famous weed smoker is smoking against the law, the law obviously doesn't forbid "talking that some people smoke" but the "normal people" who are actually found smoking (heretics) do rot in prisons or get executed. One famous weed smoker is protected by the police chief personally for some years... until he loses that protection. The actual parts of Galileo's sentence by the Inquisition: "because of the things deduced in the trial and confessed by you as above, have rendered yourself according to this Holy Office vehemently suspected of heresy, namely of having held and believed a doctine which is false and contrary to the divine and Holy Scripture: that the sun is the center of the world and does not move from east to west, and the earth moves and is not the center of the world, and that one may hold and defend as probable an opinion after it has been declared and defined contrary to Holy Scripture. Consequently you have incurred all the censures and penalties imposed and promulgated by the sacred canons and all particular and general laws against such delinquents." "so that this serious and pernicious error and transgression of yours does not remain completely unpunished, and so that you will be more cautious in the future and an example for others to abstain from similar crimes, we order that the book Dialogue by Galileo Galilei be prohibited by public edict." "We condemn you to formal imprisonment in this Holy Office at our pleasure." The rest of the sentence is equally very clear. See my other post or Wikipedia for the link. Pope John Paul II, 1992: "The error of the theologians of the time, when they maintained the centrality of the Earth, was to think that our understanding of the physical world's structure was, in some way, imposed by the literal sense of Sacred Scripture"