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...issue of censorship, writing: “It is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error...
...your opinion, does the pleasure of dreaming outweigh the disappointment of reality? Do you ever prefer fantasy to the truth...
...some ways, I always prefer fantasy to the truth, because fantasy always pleases me and the truth doesn’t. On the other hand, there’s something delicious about getting your hands on a fact. Robert Nozick had a famous conundrum where he asked people, “If you could go inside a happiness machine and you’d experience a life of utter bliss, but you’d really be laying inside a machine with your brain all wired up, would you want to go into the machine?” I don?...
...Israel, we are trying to retreat from the settlement map… to dismantle settlements. When it comes to peace, you make concession, and you think you have to negotiate not only with the opposite number. The truth is you have to negotiate with your own people. It is very difficult to explain to somebody that if you want to make peace, don’t win too much...
...truth, many critics have held that the roughly 600 Guantanamo inmates are low-level fighters who could not possibly be valuable sources of information. Moreover, studies have shown that torture is generally ineffective at gathering information from detainees...