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    It is not the case that Therefore, some paternalistic restrictions enhance rather than violate the very liberty Mill's harm principle aims to protect.

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    • 1.Defining which restrictions 'enhance' liberty is inherently contestable; granting authorities this discretion risks systematic abuse under the guise of protection.
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    • 2.Mill's harm principle specifically rejects paternalism as a valid ground for restriction; reinterpreting it to permit paternalism abandons rather than preserves his framework.
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    • 3.People are generally better judges of their own interests than external authorities; paternalistic decisions systematically underestimate individuals' capacity for self-correction.
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    • 1.True liberty requires capacity for autonomous choice; restrictions preventing cognitive impairment (e.g., drug addiction) preserve rather than eliminate this capacity.
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    • 2.Mill's harm principle protects negative liberty from interference, but positive liberty—freedom to achieve one's goals—may require constraints on self-destructive choices.
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    • 3.People's actual preferences often differ from their considered values; paternalism respecting deeper autonomy may honor liberty better than literal choice-permissiveness.
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