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Life Lesson: When you are asked to write an academic paper asking you which of two opposing viewpoints is correct, the best paper is almost always one that takes a qualified view somewhere in the middle of the two extremes presented. What you professor wants from you is a reasoned analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of both positions.
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that 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. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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