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We have to remember that it always runs the risk of undermining character by a limitation of responsibility.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “We have to remember that it always runs the risk of undermining character by a limitation of responsibility.”
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Laski warns that limiting responsibility through legislation can undermine individual character.
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The only way to deal with novelty is to understand it, and the only way to deal with grievance is to seek a remedy for the complaint it embodies.
Ultimately, that denial is always made upon the same ground: it is insisted that the doctrines or practices attacked are subversive of the civil order.
To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.
He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.
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