Quote of the Day: 5 December 2020 #QotD

“Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.” -John Stuart Mill

[So many seem to take the opposite view when they assume to be able to direct the lives of others in a manner better than those individuals do themselves. And from a rational perspective, that may be the case, except that it denies those individuals their freedom to direct their own lives.]