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When you're trying to raise the sanity waterline, dredging the swamps can be a hazardous occupation. Indian rationalist skeptic Narendra Dabholkar was assassinated this morning.
Political activism, especially in the third world, is inherently dangerous, whether or not it is rationality-related.
He was trying to pass a law to suppress religious freedoms of small sects. That doesn't raise the sanity waterline, it just increases tensions and hatred between groups.
That's a ludicrously forgiving reading of what the bill (which looks like going through) is about. Steelmanning is an exercise in clarifying one's own thoughts, not in justifying fraud and witch-hunting.
Did you even read my comment?
Yes, I did. Your characterisation of the new law is factually ridiculous.
That isn't all the law does, as you would know if you actually read it.
I haven't been able to find the text of the bill — only summaries such as this one. Do you have a link?