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    Restrictions on liberty that can only be justified by mor... — Carmelics
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    Restrictions on liberty that can only be justified by moralism or paternalism are impermissible.

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    • 1.The harm principle is the sole sufficient justification for restricting individual liberty.
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    • 2.Some restrictions cannot be justified by appeal to harm prevention, only by appeal to moralism or paternalism.
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    • 3.A restriction lacking harm-prevention justification falls outside the only permissible category.
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    • 1.Individuals systematically miscalculate long-term self-interest due to cognitive biases documented by behavioral economics (Sunstein & Thaler).
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    • 2.A state that corrects predictable irrationality through soft paternalism maximizes authentic autonomy rather than undermining it.
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    • 3.Therefore, some paternalistic restrictions enhance rather than violate the very liberty Mill's harm principle aims to protect.
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    • 1.Shared moral practices constitute the social fabric without which individual liberty itself cannot be sustained (Devlin, 'The Enforcement of Morals').
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    • 2.Permitting acts that gravely corrode communal moral bonds produces diffuse social harms that Mill's harm principle cannot adequately capture.
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    • 3.Moralistic restrictions targeting social-fabric dissolution are therefore reducible to harm prevention under a sufficiently robust conception of harm.
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    These distinctions allow Mill to defend a categorical approach to liberal rights. To decide whether an individual’s liberty ought to be protected, we must ascertain to which category the potential restriction of liberty belongs: offense, moralism, paternalism, and harm prevention. Mill seems to permit or forbid restrictions on liberty by category, claiming that the only restrictions that are permissible involve harm prevention. Of course, a given regulation might fall under more than one categor
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