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    It is not the case that Mill's harm principle holds that government legitimately restricts only liberty that harms others, leaving a sovereign domain of absolute self-regarding freedom.

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    • 1.The harm/self-regarding distinction is incoherent: individual choices have ripple effects on family, economy, and collective welfare.
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    • 2.Pure autonomy without regard for consequences ignores that humans are interdependent; isolation sufficient to be purely self-regarding is mythical.
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    • 3.Some harms (e.g., self-destruction, incompetence from poor choices) justify mild intervention even absent external harm.
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    • 1.Individual autonomy is intrinsically valuable and governments lack moral authority to dictate purely self-regarding choices.
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    • 2.Harm principle provides an objective, legally administrable standard that prevents arbitrary paternalistic state overreach.
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    • 3.Historical evidence shows paternalistic restrictions on self-regarding conduct (e.g., drug use, sexuality) cause more social harm than benefit.
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