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    It is not the case that Regulation of purely self-regarding conduct is paternalistic and impermissible under Mill's harm principle.

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    • 1.Mill's own text permits compulsory education and social pressure against self-harm, suggesting self-regarding conduct is never truly isolated.
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    • 2.No act is purely self-regarding, since personal degradation diminishes one's capacities for social contribution and harms those dependent on the agent.
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    • 3.Gerald Dworkin's soft paternalism permits intervention when self-regarding choices are substantially non-voluntary, autonomous, or based on false beliefs.
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    • 1.John Rawls argues that rational contractors behind the veil of ignorance would endorse certain paternalistic protections to guard against future incapacity.
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    • 2.A liberal framework committed to preserving the conditions of autonomy may require restricting present choices that irreversibly destroy future autonomous agency.
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    • 1.The harm principle permits society to restrict only other-regarding conduct.
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    • 2.Purely self-regarding conduct affects only the agent themselves.
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    • 3.Paternalistic regulation of self-regarding conduct exceeds the legitimate scope of social authority.
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