This was very interesting to read, mostly because what Mill is saying is that everyone is entitled to their own opinions even if those opinions are wrong. He states that no one has the right to silence anyone's opinion because no one is 100% sure that their own opinion is correct. Mill goes on to say "If the opinion is right they are deprived the opportunity of exchanging error for truth; if wrong, they lose, almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth produced by its collision with error." People must learn through their own misconceptions and mistakes if they are to ever grasp the truth.
I commented of Justin Fobel's post.
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