Sorry, it's not immediately obvious to me how this excerpt is relevant. I don't really know anything about the French Revolution, so that's probably part of my

Sorry, it's not immediately obvious to me how this excerpt is relevant. I don't really know anything about the French Revolution, so that's probably part of my confusion. I think my key takeaway from it is: >Men are not to make it the sole object of their political lives to avoid a revolution, no more than of their natural lives to avoid death. They are to take reasonable care to avert both those contingencies when there is a present danger, but not to forbear the pursuit of any worthy object for fear of a mere possibility. And I can get behind this. I think the key difference, though, is that there is not really much equivalence between the liberal ideals of the French Revolution and a misinformation campaign to burn down 5G towers. As Mill says, the former "did not choose the way of blood and violence in preference to the way of peace and discussion", but the latter certainly has. The intent behind each are just so wildly different.