Bentham misrepresented.
Submitted by totallyeddie@go... on Thu, 2010-03-04 21:26.There are a few problems with this article.
Describing UCS as 'a school that was founded on the Liberal ideals of Jeremy Bentham' would suggest that freedom of speech and expression are ideas that UCS tries to protect. To use this as an argument against allowing a particular political party to run in a mock election is absurd.
'The BNP’s inclusion...had no place in a school founded on the principles of a radical 18th-century thinker.'
Bentham, who famously argued:
'As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends' would be disappointed to see his ideas misrepresented as poorly as this.
Ed