Tornado Alley (PROG)

[blackhawks]

I'm mostly fine with you posting here. I qualify it because you do post a lot of misinformation and misrepresentation of the position's of other posters and of liberal positions in general.

The 'straw man argument' shit in particuar really gets tiresome.

That said, I appreciate the 'Millsian' view on the matter because I really do enjoy the "clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error."

I've joked that if the 'collisions' were as those referred to in car insurance policies, My deductibles would be out of sight.

But the Google Machine never fails to give me clearer perceptions and livelier impressions of the truth. So thanks for that.

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. [22-3]

http://www.theopensociety.net/2014/11/the-collision-of-truth-with-error/