Another good example of this is seen in the reaction to Aldous Huxley's book Brave New World. Huxley portrays a world of utilitarian extreme, where human beings are genetically engineered and conditioned to always be happy - a utopia for Mill. However, the primary reactions I've always witnessed to this book label it as a dystopia, a completely undesirable state. The methods in which harmony is achieved in Huxley's fictional world seem to contradict essential perceptions that make us who we are. The moral beliefs each of us hold as individuals span a wide spectrum of conviction, and in the interests of harmony it is important for an individual to become aware of the importance of any given belief.
All individuals have primary faiths.
These are the faiths to which they are bound, and to deny these faiths would be to deny the individual's personal essence. Faith is best tested by doubt. Primary faith is that which must be believed even in a perpetual state of doubt. By reflecting and meditating on our individual beliefs, we should be able to rank them in order of our conviction. The authority on which primary faith is based is completely personal.