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    Mill permits some forms of offense regulation to prevent ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The harm principle is not necessary to justify restrictions on liberty

    Mill permits some forms of offense regulation to prevent public indecency

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    However these questions are resolved, it is doubtful that the harm principle is necessary to justify restrictions on liberty. Mill makes principled exceptions to his general anti-paternalism to defend the permissibility of restrictions on selling oneself into slavery and other autonomy-enhancing forms of paternalism. Mill does allow some forms of offense regulation designed to prevent public indecency. Moreover, though Mill does seem more consistent in his opposition to legal moralism, it is not

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