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> Mill's main reason for conceding an exception to the freedom of speech wasn't the falsehood of the speech, I didn’t say it was his main concern? Mill’s reasoning ultimately rests…

I only reference the article for its quote from Mill, in which truth-value is a concern in a situation Mill happened to think warranted the suppression of falsehoods. Since Mill ul…

igammarays' comment says what I didn't have time to say: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21455211 I don't necessarily think this invalidates Mill's points, but Mill believed i…

Political discourse, in Mill's time, was a very different beast than it is today.

You’re crediting capitalism with solving the very problems it created.

If you play poker, you know that, for any given hand, you can make the right play but still lose. But you’ll come out net positive by repeatedly making the right play. You don’t ge…

Hindsight is 20/20. It’s all about what the right decision was with the information available to you at the time, not what decision would’ve had the best outcome in retrospect.