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    Mill's harm principle does not straightforwardly settle a... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Some forms of offense regulation are permissible within a Millian framework

    Mill's harm principle does not straightforwardly settle all questions about legal regulation

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    Mill may not have a consistent view about offense. It is instructive in this context to consider briefly the views of Joel Feinberg, who sees himself articulating a Millian position in his important four-volume work Moral Limits of the Criminal Law (1984–88). Feinberg understands his own defense of Millian principles as involving a modified Millian categorical approach. His main modification of Millian principles is to permit some forms of offense regulation. In Offense to Others (1985), Feinber

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