The main theme of the on liberty book by John Mill’s is individual and what are the rights of individuals to his liberty. Media in our society creates stereotypes and violent as we saw in the video which we saw in class (The Agenda with Mark Steyn and Islamophobia : America Alone) it hurts and harm people more than it help them. In my essay I will talk about what is limitation and free speeches from John Mill’s opinion, how would Mill respond to the speech issue in this case.
Mill in on liberty explained why the freedom of discussion is very important and when this freedom discussion should be limited, in on liberty Mill’s gave us some reasons. Freedom of discussion was accepted even in Mill’s time period , he thought …show more content…
Firstly, that example is similar to the one we took in class when the professor asked us is the truth always right and he also gave us a scenario of a person who is going crazy and he asked another person if he had a knife, in that case if the person had a knife should not tell the guy that he has a knife because he could of kill himself. The scenario here is almost the same idea so we will imagine that a majority which is sharing a certain point of view trying to be silence the minority who disagree. And the majority’s points of view are wrong, and the minority’s points of view are right. In that case Mill’s argues that there is disastrous to silence the minority, disastrous for the majority and that is because there is no means of liberation its belief in wrong way. However the minority is free for expressing their doubts about the majority point of view, then there is a chance that the majority will be brought to see the wrong of their point of …show more content…
That case like what happened in the video which we saw in class “The Agenda with Mark Steyn and Islamophobia : America Alone” as Mark Steyn wrote in his book America Alone, In that book Steyn argued that Europe, and Western post-Christian civilization, are experiencing a civilization exhaustion which led to particular demographic crisis. This demographic crisis, contended Steyn, to expose the ambitions of an increasingly vocal and increasingly violent Islamic minority in Europe, which was kind of violent and harmful to the Muslim people. Mill’s had another argument in chapter 2 which is that the majorities, the minorities or anyone else they can never say that their beliefs are right and completely true, they always have to but in mind they mind be wrong or their beliefs is not completely right which means that half of their beliefs are right and the other part are wrong and these cases of free discussion are very
Mill in on liberty explained why the freedom of discussion is very important and when this freedom discussion should be limited, in on liberty Mill’s gave us some reasons. Freedom of discussion was accepted even in Mill’s time period , he thought …show more content…
Firstly, that example is similar to the one we took in class when the professor asked us is the truth always right and he also gave us a scenario of a person who is going crazy and he asked another person if he had a knife, in that case if the person had a knife should not tell the guy that he has a knife because he could of kill himself. The scenario here is almost the same idea so we will imagine that a majority which is sharing a certain point of view trying to be silence the minority who disagree. And the majority’s points of view are wrong, and the minority’s points of view are right. In that case Mill’s argues that there is disastrous to silence the minority, disastrous for the majority and that is because there is no means of liberation its belief in wrong way. However the minority is free for expressing their doubts about the majority point of view, then there is a chance that the majority will be brought to see the wrong of their point of …show more content…
That case like what happened in the video which we saw in class “The Agenda with Mark Steyn and Islamophobia : America Alone” as Mark Steyn wrote in his book America Alone, In that book Steyn argued that Europe, and Western post-Christian civilization, are experiencing a civilization exhaustion which led to particular demographic crisis. This demographic crisis, contended Steyn, to expose the ambitions of an increasingly vocal and increasingly violent Islamic minority in Europe, which was kind of violent and harmful to the Muslim people. Mill’s had another argument in chapter 2 which is that the majorities, the minorities or anyone else they can never say that their beliefs are right and completely true, they always have to but in mind they mind be wrong or their beliefs is not completely right which means that half of their beliefs are right and the other part are wrong and these cases of free discussion are very