The entire point of having a relatively free society is to reduce those consequences so that people can freely search for the truth without fearing for their livelihoods, reputations, or lives. We make a lot more progress now that the Church doesn&#x27;t haul people in for saying the earth revolves around the sun, and now that people don&#x27;t get blacklisted from their careers for being suspected of communist sympathies. Just because heliocentrism and communism aren&#x27;t taboo anymore doesn&#x27;t mean we&#x27;ve figured everything out and can abandon these principles.