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    Mill's own conception of liberal rights requires more tha... — Carmelics
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    Mill's own conception of liberal rights requires more than the harm principle.

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    • 1.Mill's On Liberty explicitly invokes a 'very simple principle' but also grounds rights in utility as the 'ultimate appeal on all ethical questions'.
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    • 2.Utilitarianism as Mill conceives it requires protecting individuality and higher pleasures, generating rights-claims the harm principle alone cannot specify.
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    • 3.Bernard Williams and John Gray have both argued that Mill's liberal framework is pluralistic, requiring competence, autonomy, and development norms beyond mere non-harm.
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    • 1.Mill's discussion of 'experiments in living' in On Liberty implies a positive right to self-development that harm-avoidance alone cannot establish or protect.
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    • 2.D.G. Brown and C.L. Ten have demonstrated that Mill's harm principle underdetermines which interferences are impermissible without appeal to a background theory of interests and autonomy.
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    • 1.Mill has doubts about strong sufficiency of the harm principle.
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    • 2.Without strong sufficiency, the harm principle must be supplemented with additional principles.
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    • 3.A conception of liberal rights that requires supplementary principles goes beyond the harm principle alone.
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    But notice that if Mill rejects strong sufficiency then this compromises his one very simple principle. For only strong sufficiency shows that the harm principle is a complete guide to the regulation of liberty, telling us both when regulation is impermissible and when it is required. Even weak sufficiency implies that the harm principle must be supplemented with some other principle, such as the utilitarian principle, in order to determine if regulation is permissible, much less required. Mill’
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