User talk:StrabismusII

Revisionism. There seems something very odd to some of us about you and some of your pals seemingly only going on line to check the items you are so keen on revising or deleting. Do you ever go to a library? There is nothing wrong with being an arbiter of truth and/or taste but some of us think the public ought to make up their own minds. J.S. Mill was far smarter than most of us but even he appears to be the kind of writer you would love to be the subject of your revisionism. Perhaps you should read what is set out below and argue publicly why you think he is wrong?

"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. Were an opinion a personal possession of no value except to the owner; if to be obstructed in the enjoyment of it were simply a private injury, it would make some difference whether the injury was inflicted only on a few persons or on many. 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."StrabismusII (talk) 16:55, 19 December 2010 (UTC)