Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

by Kathryn Schulz

If I believe unshakably in the rightness of my own convictions, it follows that those who hold opposing views are denying the truth and luring others into falsehood. From there, it is a short step to thinking that I am morally entitled—or even morally obliged—to silence such people any way I can, including through conversion, coercion, and, if necessary, murder.