In a free country, no subject should be immune from criticism. I believe John Stuart Mill was right when he said :
“There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation”.
“If there are any persons who contest a received opinion, or who will do so if law or opinion will let them, let us thank them for it, open our minds to listen to them, and rejoice that there is some one to do for us what we otherwise ought, if we have any regard for either the certainty or the vitality of our convictions, to do with much greater labour for ourselves (…) The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors. A contemporary author has well spoken of "the deep slumber of a decided opinion."”.
John Stuart Mill, On liberty.
Peter Singer also said :
“I like Mill's argument that even if we're right about our views and even if the speaker is wrong as perhaps I am wrong on the disability issue, if we don't allow our view to be challenge they just become a dead dogma. We don't really think about the reasons for them and if they are challenge we don't really know how to reply”.
“There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation”.
“If there are any persons who contest a received opinion, or who will do so if law or opinion will let them, let us thank them for it, open our minds to listen to them, and rejoice that there is some one to do for us what we otherwise ought, if we have any regard for either the certainty or the vitality of our convictions, to do with much greater labour for ourselves (…) The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors. A contemporary author has well spoken of "the deep slumber of a decided opinion."”.
John Stuart Mill, On liberty.
Peter Singer also said :
“I like Mill's argument that even if we're right about our views and even if the speaker is wrong as perhaps I am wrong on the disability issue, if we don't allow our view to be challenge they just become a dead dogma. We don't really think about the reasons for them and if they are challenge we don't really know how to reply”.
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