Choose the object and limits of participation, consider substantive criticism and fulfil agreements. Every viewer's impression is not under the author's control.
Questions explored
Must everyone like you before you show work?
A universal impression is not a feasible promise; a showing has an object and addressee.
Can you disagree with criticism?
Clarify its object and distinguish taste from an error or breached obligation.
Must a personal history be disclosed?
Attention to work creates no automatic right to private details.
What follows an indifferent response?
Request a specific answer if needed; consider facts and impression separately when choosing what follows.
Key distinctions
Mill: diversity qualified by harm to others. (Selected ChapterIII passages, not new research.)
Visibility concerns a chosen object and form, not the entire person. (Editorial argument, hypothetical scene.)
Impression, useful feedback and a specific obligation require different questions. (Editorial working distinction.)
Preparation has a feasible limit; further participation is a separate choice. (Untested practical suggestion.)
Limits of interpretation
- Hypothetical scenes, not empirical results.
- No promise of calm or universal success.
- Historical judgements about peoples not transferred; actual obligations considered separately.
Sources
- On Liberty — John Stuart Mill
Actual selected chapter passages on stated pages, titlepage and catalogue read. Not entire chapter, book or the editorial introduction.
Source use: PUBLIC_DOMAIN_US_ONLY_OTHER_JURISDICTIONS_UNKNOWN
Scope includes limits concerning other people, not a permission to disrupt them. · Historical generalisations about nations not transferred as current facts. · Introduction by Courtney distinguished from Mill; no verified physical printing year inferred.