The Greatest Defense of Free Speech (John Stuart Mill’s “On Liberty”)
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How to Be Confident in Your Beliefs
In order to think you have to risk being offensive, John Stuart Mill says. The same exact arguments for freedom of thought apply to freedom of speech and for freedom of the press. A people who don't think are a people who can't speak or write or object or argue or stand up for themselves or do anything. That's the goal of censorship. You're trying to control words and you're trying to Control thoughts.
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