Q:"His word [madman] may be considered null and void, having neither truth nor importance, worthless as evidence in law, inadmissible in the of deeds or contracts... On the other hand, strange powers not held by any other may be attributed to the madman's speech: the power of uttering a hidden truth, of telling the future, of seeing in all naïveté what the others' wisdom cannot perceive."
Q: I feel we are growing as a society in terms of acceptance, but historically we have been quick to jump the gun to rid or condemn someone with different beliefs, practices, or ideas that are centrifugal according the the majority. Can you think a time in history where the centripetal society was wrong and the "madman", or woman, or centrifugal forces were right or eventually credited?
The guy who said the sun was at the center of our solar system, not the sun. Him. He was condemned by the church and thrown into jail, where I'm pretty sure he died?
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