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    Challenges→Millian liberalism does not require state neutrality about the good

    Mill's harm principle functions as a side-constraint on state action, not a positive endorsement of any particular conception of the good life.

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    • 1.Mill explicitly restricts state intervention to preventing harm to others, not promoting virtue or flourishing.
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    • 2.The principle operates negatively (what state cannot do) rather than prescriptively (what citizens should pursue).
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    • 3.Mill's framework preserves individual liberty precisely by refusing to enforce contested ideals of the good life.
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    • 1.Mill's definition of 'harm' inevitably incorporates contested values about human interests and social welfare.
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    • 2.Preventing certain harms implicitly endorses competing conceptions of the good (e.g., autonomy, dignity, wellbeing).
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    • 3.The harm principle cannot remain truly neutral; applying it requires substantive judgments about flourishing.
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