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...right to impose my personal choices on others? In a liberal democratic society, tolerance of harmless actions is a virtue that enables the peaceful functioning of society—“each person should enjoy maximum liberty, consistent with the like liberty of others.” J.S. Mill??s tolerance, rather than teetotalers, ought to be the model...
...challenge an untrue book is not to prevent its publication, but to argue against it in print,” Wiener said. “If you go back to John Stuart Mill??you don’t try to silence your opponents, you argue against them...
Lowe cites J. S. Mill??s On Liberty as his favorite book. According to Lowe, “other philosophers stand for moderation, but [Mill] says no, people should be able to speak their minds, express themselves, be eccentric, stand alone, not necessarily conform.” Likewise, says Lowe, “Harvard allows me to dress however I want, wear my hair however I want, sleep with whomever I want...
...find more that challenges our expectations, turns on its forebears, innovates on the past or at least embraces it ironically; the classics have their place, but rock and pop music continues to push forward in the quarters kept from the masses by forces that are strikingly close to Mill??s tyranny of the majority. Let them have their opium of the people, I say, but let’s not forget that this isn’t the business of the critic: active contemplation of rock has long since been the cliché of the junkie, the obsessed...
...Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature Ruth R. Wisse quoted extensively from John Stuart Mill??s On Liberty, in which the 19th-century philosopher defends the freedom of speech...