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    Legal moralism permits the state or social majority to re... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Legal moralism will lead to a tyranny of the majority, crushing individual diversity and blocking human progress and flourishing

    Legal moralism permits the state or social majority to restrict individual choices deemed unworthy

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    We are now in a better position both to see what it would take for liberals to think that censorship of pornography is justified and why liberals have been so unsympathetic to the sort of argument against pornography that conservatives make. Conservatives wish to prevent mentally competent adults from publishing and consuming pornography on the grounds that the choice to consume pornography is deeply morally misguided. But, as Mill insists, this is not a sufficient warrant for coercive interfere

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