Comments on: How financial lawsuits muzzle free speech http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2012/09/20/how-financial-lawsuits-muzzle-free-speech/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:06:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: zotdoc http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2012/09/20/how-financial-lawsuits-muzzle-free-speech/comment-page-1/#comment-61151 zotdoc Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:21:00 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/?p=14060#comment-61151 Tort reform is an issue that we must deal with. The tort industry is very destructive in the US Tort reform is an issue that we must deal with. The tort industry is very destructive in the US

]]> By: kafantaris http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2012/09/20/how-financial-lawsuits-muzzle-free-speech/comment-page-1/#comment-60946 kafantaris Thu, 20 Sep 2012 21:34:35 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/?p=14060#comment-60946 John Stuart Mill proved long ago that the benefit of freedom of speech is that it assures the continuing growth and relevance of our most cherished institutions: “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.” John Stuart Mill proved long ago that the benefit of freedom of speech is that it assures the continuing growth and relevance of our most cherished institutions:
“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.”

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