And Here I Thought It Was Motorcycle Awareness Month

The electronic billboards, along US 131 here in West Michigan, have been advertising the fact that it is motorcycle awarenss month.  I didn’t know there was a motorcycle awarenss month, until I saw the electronic billboards.  But, I also didn’t know it was John Stuart Mill Month, at least according to the Mises Economics Blog. I’d much rather see John Stuart Mill Month advertised along the highway, but not because I have anything against motorcycles.

Gary Galles puts together a collection of Mill quotes, at the link above, to refresh in your mind some of the more pertinent thoughts of Mill.  Here’s one.

"The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own...Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest..."

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