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    It is not the case that We humans are justified in interfering with the freedom of others under two conditions: preventing irreparable harm to another person, and preventing irreparable harm to oneself.

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    • 1.Mill's harm principle holds that self-regarding actions affecting only oneself fall outside legitimate coercive interference, even to prevent self-harm.
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    • 2.Suicide, when chosen by a competent adult, is paradigmatically self-regarding, making paternalistic physical intervention a violation of autonomy rather than an expression of it.
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    • 3.A principle permitting interference to prevent irreparable self-harm collapses the self/other distinction that liberal political philosophy depends upon to limit state and interpersonal coercion.
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    • 1.Kant's Formula of Humanity forbids treating persons merely as means, and forcible interference substitutes one agent's judgment for another's rational self-governance.
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    • 2.Irreparability alone cannot justify interference, since death and many irreversible choices are the result of fully autonomous rational deliberation that deserves respect precisely because it is final.
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    • 1.A loving father may report his own son to the police in an effort to prevent the son from committing murder, illustrating justified interference to prevent irreparable harm to another.
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    • 2.A loving father may physically overpower his daughter in an effort to prevent her from committing suicide, illustrating justified interference to prevent irreparable harm to oneself.
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