"On Liberty" - harmful book?

[Eric J in MN]

Why would conservatives listing the "most harmful" books for the rightwing magazine "Human Events" include John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty?"

Their article lists it, but doesn't explain:
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=7591

[sweetheart]

1. Its a magnificent book

"On Liberty" is a profound investigation as to what exactly "liberty"
implies... something that is not "majority rules"... rahter calling
that "the tyrrany of the majority". Its no wonder that "up or down"
voters find it tiresome.

Here is more discussion on this topic:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3767134&mesg_id=3767134&page=

[lenidog]

2. They may dislike the idea in it that people should be allowed to do what

they want as long as it harms no one else. W

[VioletLake]

3. Because they're primitivists.

Or it could be that JSM once wrote something along the lines of:
Not all conservatives are morons, but all morons are conservatives.

[VioletLake]

4. Here's the quote:

"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives."
-John Stuart Mill

And here they are again, fucking up everything. One of these days...

[oscar111]

5. LOOK AT THE FULL LIST: some ther i had not heard of

like Comte 's book

ON POSITIVISM

anyone able to say if that is the origin of science being defined as

LOGICAL POSITIVISM?

i have never yet seen a good explanation of positivism.

[oscar111]

6. moved

nnnnn

[oscar111]

8. Summary of all the books listed?

some i had not heard of .

anyone smart enough here to give a twenty line summary of most of them?

incl the runnerups?

no time to read them all.

[VioletLake]

7. I saw the full list.

Everything they do is ridiculous from beginning to end. Am I supposed to take this seriously? lol