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Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of Mill's arguments for the encouragement of freedom of thought and discussion.
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Ruth Russell Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of Mill's arguments for the encouragement of freedom of thought and discussion The strengths and weaknesses of Mill's arguments for encouraging freedom of thought and discussion can once again be viewed in three parts. First, consider the case he presents for encouraging thought and discussion of all views in the instance of a true opinion being silenced. He says that to do this is to assume infallibility, which is wrong, and that worst of all, suppression of truthful thoughtful ideas i.e. the equality of blacks and whites, men and women, can cause the pushing back of important ideas so that ages of innocent people are persecuted unnecessarily as a result; circumstances no rational person would wish to occur. Yet, there are instances in history where many would argue the suppression of truthful views is, paradoxically, one of the ways by which the truth will be...
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