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Vegetarianism Exposed In John Stuart Mill's On Liberty

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John Stuart Mill was an English philosopher and an influential political theorist. In his great work, On Liberty, demonstrated the harm principle. Along with the harm principle, there is a great question among the text. The question is, why should heresy be permitted? As a Christian, seeking the truth is hard due to many heresies that are in the world. These heresies could be confusing to many Christians and seekers of God. Many followers believe that these heresies should be ban, but honestly, it should not be ban. Heresy should be permitted in order to distinguish the truth from the fiction. The harm principle for Mills is if there is physical context or if anything produces violent. Violent can be either physically or mentally. Mill states: …show more content…

The way that I understand this passage is by changing the idea of heresy to alcohol. For me, I know that alcohol is bad to drink. The reason I know is bad to drink is due to the amount of knowledge I know of the effects of drinking alcohol. Also, another reason that I do not drink alcohol is an experience that I saw in my family. My uncle died three year as ago was due to liver cancer, and got liver cancer due to his drinking issue. I saw how much my uncle suffered while he was in his last stages of cancer, and I did not want to end up like him. So, referring back to Mills, if I know that alcohol is bad to consume then why is alcohol is legal to buy and drink? The reason why I believe many bad kinds of stuff is legal is to make the people aware of what is good for you body and what is bad for your body. Yet, I have had multiple times that many college students or family members that have offered me a drink of alcohol. At the moment when a person asked me and pressure me, it will be hard for me to defend my decision of rejecting the drink. If we did not have any bad things they will not be able to distinguish what is good from what is

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