The Greatest Defense of Free Speech (John Stuart Mill’s “On Liberty”)
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How to Be Confident in Your Opinion
Safeguarding the freedom of speech is safeguarding the truth. The more often you test your ideas in the battleground of viable and dangerous alternatives, the more confident that you can be when your ideas come out on top. John Stuart Mill says if you force one belief system on people, they're not going to believe it because it's true. Instead they'll have superstition.
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