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John Stuart Mill: Fu Main Choo, PuffPuff

On the one hand, we can read what thinkers like John Stuart Mill had to say about the importance of free speech.

JSM:

a. "[I]f any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion, for all we might know, might be true. To deny that is to assume our own infallibility."

b. "On any matter not self-evident, there are ninety-nine persons totally incapable of judging of it, for one who is capable."

c. A heap of other world-class thoughts.

On the other hand, we can continue, in our laymen's ignorance, to apply overweening peer pressure, spiced with ad hominem depreciation, to silence, and publicly shame, BB1865, e j l, Lucretius, me, anyone of the misfits who may once have subscribed to, or even have had the timidity to recall for flavor, the history of the wing-T, or of the Confederacy, because the majority of us subscribers, in our crowd-pleasing moments when we all kneel down, are brave-crowd, rpo-offensive, mob mentalists, helot-haters, sheltered by mob anonymity, protected by it, compelled to display neither civil nor personal courage.

If it doesn't fit, don't wear it. But think about trying it on.

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