Murray Leinster - ThisIsCommonSense.org

There are some people so stupid you have to show them everything. I didn’t realize that there are people so stupid you can’t show them anything.
Murray Leinster, The Pirates of Zan (1959).

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On July 1, 1766, François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, was tortured and beheaded before his body was burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire’s Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France.

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