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    Challenges→Mill understands the harm principle in terms of harm prevention (HP2) rather than harm causation (HP1).

    Mill's explicit formulations in On Liberty consistently frame the harm principle as restricting interference to prevent one person from harming others, not from failing to aid them.

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    Failing to aid(as used in ethics and the harm principle)
    Not helping someone when they need help, as opposed to actively hurting them—an important distinction because Mill's principle only justifies stopping harmful actions, not forcing people to be helpful.
    Interference(as used in ethics and personal freedom)
    When someone steps in to stop or prevent another person from doing what they want to do.
    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.
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    (core concept in liberal political philosophy)
    An idea that the only good reason to limit someone's freedom is to prevent harm to others—not to protect people from harming themselves or from doing things society disapproves of.

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