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Michael Woudenberg's avatar

I'd say that right now the entire idea is to be different and everyone claims it in such a way to actually become confirmist. This was the irony of the hipsters and the typical pattern of the neuro'divergents.' There's such confirmaty to their non-conformity as to become the very thing they hated. Punk was the same, it wasn't hard to tell who the punk rockers were. They conformed

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David Perlmutter's avatar

"...people ultimately voted to have him executed because of the way he saw the world." Actually, they forced him to commit suicide by taking a shot of hemlock, a poisonous substance.

Because of this, writers in later eras, such as 20th century American leftist journalist I.F. Stone, have used his case to demonstrate the mob mentality behind justice in democracies.

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