As well as freedom in how to live, Mill thought it was vital that everyone was given freedom to think and speak as they liked. Open discussion was of great benefit to society, he felt, because it forced people to think hard about what they believed. If you don't have your views challenged by people with opposing views, then you will probably end up holding them as ‘dead dogmas’, prejudices that you can't really defend. He argued for free speech up to the point at which it incited violence. A journalist, he believed, should be free to write an editorial in which he declared that ‘corn-dealers
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