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Tao Stoic 93

"Could you give us a good example of Mill's Paradox [51] or Democrazy principles Master?"

"Certainly I can. There is the Ku Klux Klan in the U.S.A. to start with, and what was the very first thing that Luther achieved? Can not everybody teach his children whatever nonsense or superstition he likes, mutulate them for life?"

"The chopping-off of heads, Master, that was Luther, just like the French so-called revolution, the revolution that devoured its own children."

"Good. But de facto, democrazy has nothing to do with free speech, the freedom to lie and swindle, and mutilate your children's Minds. It means ALL people govern, therefore ALWAYS, EVERY minority, whether scientists, experts or not, will lose in EVERY case. The majority rules. You do not want your children mentally crippled (Mill's Paradox), but the majority (democrazy) decides that you have to put up with it. Spencer (Essays) asked: 'What if the majority decides that nobody lives beyond 60?' It is not unthinkable at all that, seeing the explosive development of our problems, the tumble of food production, the 'Breeding Storm', this question may come up soon. Mill's Paradox now, is something on its own. When you accept BOTH of the mutually incommensurates, you can go on bickering and bickering for generations. By then, we all are extinguished like a flea in a furnace." Mill's Paradox consists of these two incompatibles: a) Man has the right to form his own ideas freely, b) Man has the right to express ideas freely.


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