An idea from On Liberty

Choosing is how judgment grows, the way muscles grow with use, and following custom trains nothing. People need room for different experiments of living. A person is more like “a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides” than a machine.

From On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

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