HSRP-473
"Heretic", "apostate" and "traitor" name someone once inside; across faiths and states the texts code the breach as a broken promise and rank the leaver below the one who never joined.
Proof page — generated from the HSRP research notes register. Where a block has no data, it says so.
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1. Header
2. The claim, in full
"Heretic", "apostate" and "traitor" name someone once inside; across faiths and states the texts code the breach as a broken promise and rank the leaver below the one who never joined.
Cited on: /the-hive-mind, US AND THEM › The member who breaks ranks. Entered 2026-10-12 with the /the-hive-mind rewrite; tag NEW-W1c-8.
3. What it rests on
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The words "heretic", "apostate" and "traitor" each name someone who was once inside; an outsider cannot commit these offenses. Across faiths and states, the texts code the breach as a broken promise and rank the one who left below the one who never joined. Thomas Aquinas held that "speaking absolutely, the unbelief of heretics is the worst": those "who have never received the faith" are "by no means to be compelled", while those who professed it should be, "that they may fulfil what they have promised" [SRC-835]. In Sasanian Iran the king "presided over criminal cases involving apostasy and high treason" [SRC-836].
Source: none linked in the register -
Secular law made the same move. The French Republic's law of 22 Prairial Year II (10 June 1794) named as "enemies of the people" those who "sought to mislead opinion" or "corrupt the public conscience", with death the only penalty [SRC-837]. The label turned members of the people into its enemies. Soviet law from 1934 counted flight abroad as treason, punishable by death, or by ten years in prison where there were mitigating circumstances (Article 58-1a) [SRC-838].
Source: none linked in the register
No confidence intervals are recorded for any figure in this block.
4. Sources
No source is linked to this observation in the register.
5. Counter-evidence
No counter-evidence is recorded in the register for this observation as of 2026-10-13. No search for counter-evidence has been recorded for this observation.
6. Why this grade
texts ESTABLISHED; convergence PROBABLE; the broken-promise logic WORKING
The register defines WORKING as: A hypothesis or projection consistent with the evidence so far, but not yet confirmable.
7. Correction history
8. Related observations
- HSRP-474 · WORKING · Judging one's own norm-breaker more harshly than an outsider, the "black sheep effect", holds only in part.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-475 · WORKING · Psychology supplies the readiness to rank the leaver; offices supplied the penalty.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-476 · PROBABLE · People pressed to agree criticize a lone dissenter in public but not in private, and onlookers read it as sincere.Relation: not recorded
9. Where this appears on the site
Content pages that cite this observation inline:
- The Programmable Hive Mind“"Heretic", "apostate" and "traitor" name someone once inside; across faiths and states the texts code the breach as a broken promise and rank the leaver below the one who never joined — texts ESTABLISHED; convergence PROBABLE; the broken-promise logic WORKING”
10. Open questions
Not yet recorded for this observation.
11. Machine block
The register record this page was generated from, with the derived fields added:
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"statement": "The words \"heretic\", \"apostate\" and \"traitor\" each name someone who was once inside; an outsider cannot commit these offenses. Across faiths and states, the texts code the breach as a broken promise and rank the one who left below the one who never joined. Thomas Aquinas held that \"speaking absolutely, the unbelief of heretics is the worst\": those \"who have never received the faith\" are \"by no means to be compelled\", while those who professed it should be, \"that they may fulfil what they have promised\" [SRC-835]. In Sasanian Iran the king \"presided over criminal cases involving apostasy and high treason\" [SRC-836]."
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