The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of
an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race;
posterity as well as the existing generation; those who
dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it.
If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity
of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is
almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and
livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision
with error.
-John Stuart Mill, philosopher and economist (1806-1873)
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