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    A conception of liberal rights that requires supplementar... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Mill's own conception of liberal rights requires more than the harm principle.

    A conception of liberal rights that requires supplementary principles goes beyond the harm principle alone.

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    Mill has doubts about strong sufficiency of the harm principle.Mill's own conception of liberal rights requires more than the harm principle.Without strong sufficiency, the harm principle must be supplemented with additio...

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    But notice that if Mill rejects strong sufficiency then this compromises his one very simple principle. For only strong sufficiency shows that the harm principle is a complete guide to the regulation of liberty, telling us both when regulation is impermissible and when it is required. Even weak sufficiency implies that the harm principle must be supplemented with some other principle, such as the utilitarian principle, in order to determine if regulation is permissible, much less required. Mill’

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