@PhilosophyExp this feels disingenuous given Mill's settled advocacy for those with minority views, in whose support this argt is deployed
...which the most skilful devil's advocate can conjure up."--J. S. Mill, "On Liberty". (Take note, you advocates of "safe spaces").
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@PhilosophyExp at the very least, I think you need an argument to use that argument against the safe spaces line. -
@zaranosaur The whole argument is against hermetically sealed discursive spaces. The point stands (and is obvious). -
@PhilosophyExp but it sits within a broader argt about need to puncture transformation of accepted - majority? - truths into dead dogma. -
@zaranosaur "If it [a strong opinion] is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as dead dogma, not a living truth" -
@PhilosophyExp Mill, with his mental illness and feminism would surely accept that a more nuanced interpretation is possible. Unconvinced.
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