John Stuart Mill in On Liberty (1849) writes that you could basically steal from atheists without consequence, because they can't swear oaths and therefore can't testify against a thief. (He ridicules that logic, because if they're honest enough to admit to atheism, then...) https://twitter.com/hemantmehta/status/1116710955264557056 …
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That reads like something Oscar Wilde would say. I love it.
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More seriously, the thing with Mill is he could never really, in his heart of hearts, accept mass democracy, even in his socialist period. Still, he made an effort and pointed in the inevitable direction that liberalism had to evolve towards social democracy.
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