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Sunday, August 12, 2007

Cool Stuff By J. S. Mill

There are many who consider as an injury to themselves any conduct which they have a distaste for, and resent it as an outrage to their feelings; ... But there is no parity between the feeling of a person for his own opinion, and the feeling of another who is offended at his holding it; no more than between the desire of a thief to take a purse, and the desire of the right owner to keep it. And a person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse.
J. S. Mill draws examples from Muslims and their disgust for pork, Spaniards and their dislike for married clergies, Puritans and their puritanical beliefs to make his case for the 'harm principle', which has been mentioned in the class comprehension.

Might be useful for your AQ...

J. S. Mill, On Liberty -- Chapter IV(=D)

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