"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time,

with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."

Daniel Webster said in a speech given in Charleston, South Carolina, May 10, 1847, "Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have." However, Ralph Waldo Emerson made an entry into one of his journals in 1851 which read, "The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Daniel Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan." It would seem that Mr. Webster and Mr. Emerson don't see eye to eye on the topic of liberty. One sees liberty as something to be controlled, the other sees it as something to be left alone. In John Stuart Mill's essay, On Liberty, he approaches things from a classical liberalist standpoint, while his conservative opponents take the paternalist view. Like Webster and Emerson, two sides of the same coin, but very different in philosophy nonetheless.

The town of Skokie, Illinois has a large Jewish population, including many survivors of the holocaust brought about by the Nazi party occupying Germany and much of Europe during the secon

liberal stance. Gerald Dworkin stated in his essay Paternalism, "Under certain conditions it is rational for an individual to agree that others should force him to act in ways which, at the time of the action, the individual may not see as desirable." Dworkin would see what Morris was doing as harm to himself, and the logical thing for society to do is to limit or coercively stop him from using marijuana and LSD. Laws against drug use and cultivation would be advocated by the Paternalist because the actions one does to himself are seen as the the business of the society. Society must "save" each of us from ourselves and be that "big brother" we never had. According to Dworkin, "since we are all aware of our irrational propensities, deficiencies in cognitive and emotional capacities, and avoidable and unavoidable ignorance, it is rational and prudent for us in effect to take out 'social insurance policies'." See, we need society to police our actions, and make sure we are all tucked in nice and safe at night because we are all too stupid to take care of ourselves and make our own decisions.

d World War. The American Nazi Party petitioned the city council of Skokie for permission to march through their streets. As far as the population of

doesn't affect anyone but himself and (b) the statement that he is "threatening his personal freedom" is a matter of opinion not fact. The Paternalist view on this case would be very different from Mill's liberal

opinion and so you have a tyranny, not a democracy. No matter the offensiveness, or the unpopularity of an opinion we must allow it to be heard or we shoot ourselves in the foot by destroying the

against marijuana." The D.A. however stated that "the use of drugs is a threat both to personal freedom-addicts lose it-and to society; it has no place." Which side of the line do we stand on, should we allow individuals the right to do what they please so long as it doesn't harm others, or should we "save" them from themselves because they are "harming" themselves by "threatening" their personal freedom. Mill professes his belief in autonomy, however this only applies when a person is not placing another in danger. He states that "no one pretends that actions should

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