An example that applies Mill’s principle happened recently here on campus. We had to vote if we should have the open carry law here at school. The school gave the student body the opportunity to exercise our voice or concerns by taking a survey to determine whether we should have it. This made us grow as a community, and it allows tyranny of the majority take place. I personally don’t want to have to open carry law here at school, mainly I will feel uncomfortable knowing that there are people walking around campus with guns. I understand that there is a requirement that people have to have in order to have a concerned weapon, but that still doesn’t make me feel safe. On the other hand, I also understand the other side’s point of view, that
According to Tribune - Review analysis of Department of National Justice Caseload Data, 29.2 percent of criminal violation citations had weak or insufficient admissible evidence; 25 percent had lack of evidence of criminal intent; 9.2 percent had no federal offense evident; and 5 percent had insufficient evidence. Statistics and data typically aren't very intimidating, however these are. These statistics indicate that law enforcement officers and public officials are taking advantage of people who know nothing of their own civil rights and liberties. Knowing your rights is vital to avoiding infringement, and possible false incarceration. Violation of these rights isn't something new, it's been occurring for many years, and many of your rights today were founded on some of the cases that have dealt with it. One example, is Miranda vs Arizona, “the supreme court ruled detained criminal suspects, prior to police questioning, must be informed of their constitutional right to an attorney and against self incrimination” (Miranda v Arizona, Alex Mcbride).
The articles speak on these topics the national context regarding the open carry law, concern violence on campus, restriction of guns on college grounds, and brain studies. Guns on college campuses is causing several national events to transpire ranging from government official vacated their position to concern parents. Having restrictions for sports on campus that requires a gun to present. The brain of traditional college students isn’t fully mentally matured till about the age of twenty-four. The author is currently the dean of Texas Tech University School of Law, is an expert in higher education law and policy and is an elected member of the American Law Institute. This article be beneficial when speaking on the impacts the law is causing
Cowardice Many fear that their bad actions of becoming public since their reputations would be in jeopardy. Throughout the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dimmesdale demonstrates to be a lowly coward who worries more to preserve his reputation and save himself from shame. Although Dimmesdale greatly suffered in silence after his sin, he was never brave enough to confess his sin making him a lowly coward. Dimmesdale demonstrated to be a lowly coward because he had many opportunities to confess himself, one being up on the scaffold.
Mill’s harm principle of ““One should not interfere with other people’s lives unless those people are doing harm to others” (p.G3), is in other words, if a person do not cause harm to others, there is no reason to prevent his/her actions. Mill’s belives that an individual is the supreme sovereign of his/her own acts. Even when the decisions taken may be some harm upon him/her, the responsibility of these actions is only on the individual.
In John Stuart Mill’s second chapter in On Liberty, he discusses the liberty of thought and discussion, and more importantly, describes the importance of dissenting opinion. Mill describes that the “peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race.” (Mill 614). He argues, “to refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty.” (Mill 615). It is important to notice the distinction between the certainty of the public and absolute certainty. Mill absolutely rejects the idea that truths can be accepted without hearing dissenting opinion. As he says,
Mill claims that his purpose in writing on liberty is to assert what he describes one very simple principle. The principle that ought to govern society and that principle has come to be known as the harm principle. The individuals own good either physical or moral is not a sufficient warrant for societal intervention. The individual cannot rightfully be compelled to do or not to do because it will be better for him to do so because it is better for him to do so because it will make him happier.
First, Mill pointed out that everyone has their own judgments and no one has the right to decide an issue for all people. The liberty of an opinion is often up for debate because we are all confident in our own rightness, even though that confidence is not justified. “They have no authority to decide the question for all mankind, and exclude every other person from the means of judging. To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.” (Mill, II.3). Mill pointed out that silencing a potentially true idea hurts society because it is shielded from that possible truth. You never can
Mill is extremely clear as to why the individual should be sovereign over his or her body and mindto counter the effects of a possible "tyranny of the majority." Mill states, "It (the majority) practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself" (63).
The Republican National Convention commenced in high apparatus in Cleveland, with everyone's eyes on the display and addresses from its full lineup of speakers. However, literary theft embarrassments aside, the four-day GOP crowning ceremony service for chosen one Donald Trump was likewise an activity in setting the Republican party's stage, an announcement of principles that lays out the essential convictions and arrangement recommendations of the GOP.
Mill uses the Harm Principle to identify his argument for freedom of speech. The Harm Principle explains that the government are only justified in interfering with individuals who express their views if only their views cause harm to others. If a person’s actions only affect himself, then society, which includes the government should not be able to stop a person from doing what he wants. Three ideas helped shape the harm principle. The first idea, Mill states that the harm principle is composed of the liberty of expressing and publishing opinions as being important as the liberty of thought, which
I feel like there's nothing wrong with having protection, but it's how you use your protection that determines weather or not it should be legal. Me personally would say that the open carry law should be legal because there's so much happening especially murders, and robberies. People of the United States need protection at least to carry around with them because you never know what can happen especially at night time. Now I don’t condone in people just using their protection to go wild with their weapon and shooting people with no reason behind it, but what I do know is that I want a gun of my own when I am old enough to purchase one just for protection, and to protect my future family. The new year brought a new law that's generated a lot of heat in Texas the open carry law of handguns. In Texas you can now openly carry a handgun in a hip or shoulder holster. You don’t need to conceal a gun like you did in the past. In Texas in order to openly carry a gun, you have to have a concealed- handgun license. You have to at least be 21 or older. You also have to complete classroom training and pass a shooting test. You have
John Stuart Mills “Harm principle” states that the only actions that can be prevented are ones that create harm. In other words, a person can do whatever he wants as long as his actions do not harm others. If a person's actions only affect himself, then society, which includes the government, should not be able to stop a person from doing what he wants. This even includes actions that a person may do that would harm the person himself. A example that I can provide to support this principle is murder, if a person murders another person then they're harming the other person. Since it's the governments job to not let citizens harm each other there's a law against murder. You can go down a ample amount of incidents that will fall under to break the “Harm principle” such as assault, rape, robbery, etc. Relating back to what Mills states as his principle a big example I can think of is the riots that have been occurring all over the United States. I say this because, Mills principle justifies that power can only be taken when another person is at harm, this is what the police of states all over have been doing to take action. You are allowed to protest in a peaceful manner at your will, but when it turns into the result of a “riot” or a non peaceful protest then this is where officers do have to take action with the power they are given. A question that has brought many thoughts to myself is, according to Mills principle what would be the circumstances considering the fact if you
The book starts off by discussing the fact that liberty is important to protect individuals against political tyranny of overzealous rulers. Citizens of the society were beginning to realize that in order for them to achieve liberty the government would have to step in, and act as a instrument of the peoples will. Whatever the majority chose in a society was what the government would have to go with as its main purpose should be to serve the best interest of the citizens. Mill recognizes this new so-called victory of the people is nothing they assume its like to be, its in fact just a way for a new type of tyranny; the type of prevailing opinion. This type of tyranny is far worse and more evil as it silences the voice of the minority, and lets the majority rule. The minority of a society should be able to state their opinion even if it may be wrong, right, or even part of the truth. According to Mill, everyone’s contribution is extremely important in a community. Mill states that society should not impose its values on anyone because even though the majority choses one path, it doesn’t mean that they are right because human opinion is error-prone and thus we should listen and not be so judgmental on the opinions of those who don’t agree with majority. The majority group if people who choose one path may not always realize that they might be making a error in judgment which those in minority can be able to see. Mills
Firstly, Mill believes that individual liberty is instrumental in the attainment of truth. No one can claim an infallibility of knowledge or a definite truth. Falsehoods are often sprinkled with specks of truth; and truth may exists as half-truths held by different people, and it is only through controversy that the truth in the parts can be unified into a larger canvas of the ultimate truth. If one's actions were to be censored completely, society would lose those specks of truth amongst the falsehoods, which would be disadvantageous to society.
Team building is very important in the workplace as all of the staff members have equally important roles in the unit. Team building is defined as the process of deliberately creating and unifying a group into a functioning team (Huber, 2014). Without a solid relationship in a team the unit cannot function with maximum performance (Boies, 2015). Today we interviewed Queenie who is the manager of a local Asian-fusion restaurant in Torrance called Yellow Fever. It is not based on the deadly disease, but is an embracement and spread of the Asian culture. Yellow Fever is an Asian-fusion restaurant that serves Asian themed bowls based on the city they 're from such as the Shanghai, Tokyo, Seoul, and California. She has been working there since the opening of the restaurant in December 2013 and recently risen to a managerial position based on her increased experience with the restaurant and handling of customer relations.