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Brendan O'Neill - Why We Must Dissent
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The Importance of Responsibility
It's not true that everyone knows how best to run their life, he says. John Stuart Mill talks about this on Liberty published in the 1860s I think. Even if it's true that the government has a better idea than this person, you should still be allowed to make your own judgments and take responsibility for yourself. But there is a point at which the defense of freedom becomes something else. It becomes the defense of self-destruction. We have to be very careful in working out where that line is.
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