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    It is not the case that Some forms of offense regulation are permissible within a Millian framework

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    • 1.Mill's harm principle explicitly restricts legal coercion to preventing harm to others, not merely disagreeable mental states in observers.
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    • 2.Offense causes no setback to interests in Mill's sense unless it involves a wrongful act that damages a victim's welfare or autonomy.
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    • 3.Permitting offense regulation under nuisance theory smuggles in a majority-preference standard that Mill's liberty principle was designed to exclude.
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    • 1.Feinberg's own taxonomy in 'Offense to Others' concedes that pure offense, unlike harm, cannot justify criminalization without independent normative scaffolding Mill rejects.
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    • 2.The 'seriousness of offense outweighs agent's interests' balancing test introduces a utilitarian aggregation logic that undermines the side-constraint function of Mill's liberty principle.
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    • 1.Mill's harm principle does not straightforwardly settle all questions about legal regulation
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    • 2.Some offenses constitute public nuisances that cause disagreeable mental states
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    • 3.Even in a free society, the law commonly regulates nuisance
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