Element of will being,
J.S. Mill
Element of will being of individual that individual should be free to form its opinions and to express its opinion without reserve. Actions should not be as free as opinions. Opinion loses their immunity when the circumstances in which they are expressed are such as to constitute their expression a positive instigation to some mischievous act.
The liberty of the individual must be limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people. But if he refrains from molesting others in what concern them, and merely act according to his own inclination and judgment in things which concern him, the same reason which show that opinion should be free, he should be allowed without molestation to carry his opinion into practice at his own cost.
Mankinds are not perfect, that their truths for the most part, are half truth; the unity of opinion unless resulting from the fullest and freest comparison of opposite opinions, is not desirable, and diversity not an evil, but good, until mankind are much more capable than at present of recognizing all side of the truth, are principles applicable to men’s modes of action, not less than to their opinions. As it is useful that while mankind are imperfect there should be different opinions, so it is that there should be different experiments of living; that free scope should be given to varieties of character, short of injury to others; and that the worth of different modes of life should be proved practically, when any one thinks fit to try them.
It is desirable, that in things which do not primarily concern others, individuality should declare itself. Where, not the persons own character, but traditions or customs of other people are the rule of conduct there is wanting one of the principle ingredients of human happiness, and quite the chief ingredient of individual and social progress…
Sarjov