Topic > Case Study on Affirmative Action - 1133

Mill begins “On Freedom” by stating the principle that we should never regulate the actions of others unless those actions harm others. He goes on to suggest that we should not limit the word, even when we find it false. What seems strange about all this is that Mill is a utilitarian, meaning that the rightness or wrongness of a policy or action depends on its consequences. Clearly, some speech does a lot of harm and not a lot of good, so how can Mill argue that we should never censor? (Your answer should include Mill's discussion of why censorship "robs the human race" and you should cover both cases when the minority view is false and when it is