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    Challenges→Whether an action is wrong depends on whether it is optimal to apply sanctions to that action

    Mill himself distinguishes in On Liberty between actions that are merely imprudent self-regarding acts and actions that are genuinely immoral, indicating wrongness precedes sanctionability.

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    Immoral(in ethics)
    Going against what is morally right or ethical; doing something that violates accepted standards of good behavior.
    Imprudent(describing actions that are bad for you but not necessarily morally wrong)
    Unwise or foolish; doing something that's not in your own best interest.
    Mill(as the subject being discussed)
    John Stuart Mill was a 19th-century British philosopher who wrote influential ideas about liberty, happiness, and what makes a good life.
    On Liberty(as a foundational philosophical text)
    A famous essay Mill wrote in 1859 defending individual freedom and arguing against government overreach in people's personal lives.
    Sanctionability(discussing what society has the right to punish)

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    Whether something deserves to be punished or condemned by society or the law.
    Self-regarding acts(in discussion of which actions society should regulate)
    Actions that only affect yourself and don't directly impact other people, like choosing what to eat or how to spend your free time.
    Wrongness precedes sanctionability(the key philosophical claim being made about the relationship between morality and punishment)
    An action has to actually be morally wrong before society is justified in punishing it—you can't punish something just because it's foolish.

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