On Freedom of Expression of Opinion
(Source: Serendipity.li)
(Source: Serendipity.li)
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| (Source: OWNI.EU) |
But 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. ...
We have now recognized the necessity to the mental well-being of mankind (on which all their other well-being depends) of freedom of opinion, and freedom of the expression of opinion, on four distinct grounds; which we will now briefly recapitulate.
First, if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility.
Secondly, though the silenced opinion be an error, it may, and very commonly does, contain a portion of truth; and since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.
Thirdly, even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly contested, it will, by most of those who receive it, be held in the manner of a prejudice, with little comprehension or feeling of its rational grounds.
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| (Reproduced from 'Reformed Liberal'). |
And not only this, but fourthly, the meaning of the doctrine itself will be in danger of being lost, or enfeebled, and deprived of its vital effect on the character and conduct: the dogma becoming a mere formal profession, inefficacious for good, but encumbering the ground, and preventing the growth of any real and heartfelt conviction, from reason or personal experience.
4 comments:
So...Here my top opinion for Khmer guys. Stop misinterpreting the so called female virginity evidence! A 13 years old girl could break loose that thin tissue by the rough gymnasium activities while some whore with elastic hymen tissue can stretch and claim she's a virgin!
Real Virgin meant lack of experiences. Would you hire a secretary who types 2 words a minutes?
Right of individualist always reflects to the right of the society, where you now live in Cambodia, the US or oder places on this planet.
Right of individual works well, when you are a children of state or street children but not for someone still under the protection of family and the society.
Thanks Miss.Gymnastina of 12:12 AM for your comment! It reminded me somehow of the banned Khmer song of Mr.Sen Ranut " Wanted a youngster girl named Croccodillia!?" or in Khmer title "Chawng' Barn kraw meu min toan' thom!".
Anyway, I don't think Khmer guys nowadays mind so much about having real virgin (or not) girls to be their wives as long as theirs Chemistry are right for each other.
Come on, guys!
Virginity is the past. As long as you love each other, everything else does not matter anymore.
Most guys nowadays couldn't care less of the virginity thing about women; after all women never ask men if this is their first experience and run away if it is so.
Let us be fair; it is 21st century so give our ladies some respect!
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