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Does our society still support the right to be wrong?

The whole idea of a free society is based on a very simple idea that is very hard to live by: People have the right to be wrong.

This idea has ancient roots, but it was always and everywhere a minority opinion, unpopular with both the masses and the rulers, until relatively recently.

In the "modern" era, its status as one of the defining ideas of Western civilization can be traced to the Treaty of Westphalia in

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