Consider the ramifications of Mill’s perspective on free speechwith reference to any of the contemporary free speech examplesreviewed in class.
In Chapter II ‘Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion’ Millsates... “the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of anopinion is that it is robbing the human race, posterity as well asthe existing generation- those who dissent from the opinion, stillmore than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they aredeprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth; ifwrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearerperception and livelier impression of truth produced by itscollision with error....â€
I have to right an essay based on that quote, but I don’t fullyunderstand the quote. I was hoping that you could give an in depthanalysis of the quote.
