On Liberty

This, mi compadres, is John Stuart Mill,

whom, I would argue,

would have been a staunch supporter of blogging,

had it only existed in his time.

Check out his take on freedom of opinion:

"First, if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for ought

we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility.

Second, though the silenced opinion may be an error, it may,

and very often does, contain a portion of the truth...

it is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the

remainder of the truth

has any chance of being supplied."

He goes on of course, but suffice it to say,

be proud of yourself for upholding the central pillars of the pursuit of truth:

free speech, open criticism and public debate.

Happy Independence, Freedom,

and Thank God and Thomas Jefferson

for Free Speech Day

and

BLOG ON!!

Portions of this post were blatantly ripped from The Ethics of Teaching, 4th ed. by Kenneth Strike and Jonas F. Soltis.

This message jointly funded by the Anti-Plagiarist's League, the High-Falutin' Citation Society, and the Contaminate Others With Your Grad-School Curriculum Consortium.