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    When an individual's private activities cause harm to oth... — Carmelics
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    When an individual's private activities cause harm to others, the state may be justified in regulating those activities.

    Rights & LibertySocial Contract
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    • 1.Activities that harm others are no longer merely private matters but of legitimate public interest.
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    • 2.The state has a legitimate interest in regulating matters of public concern.
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    • 1.Mill's harm principle requires that harm be direct and assignable to specific victims, not speculative or aggregated social harm.
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    • 2.Regulatory justification derived from diffuse or probabilistic harm collapses the private/public distinction entirely, rendering no activity genuinely private.
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    • 1.Nozick's rights as side-constraints entails that state intervention requires violated rights, not merely harm as a utilitarian welfare calculation.
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    • 2.Classifying harm as sufficient for regulation without a rights-violation framework permits paternalistic overreach inconsistent with individual sovereignty.
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    Liberal defenders of the right to pornography may thus allow that restrictions on its public display may be justified. But only if pornography can reliably be shown to cause significant harm to people other than those consenting adults involved in its production and consumption will there be a legitimate case for prohibiting its voluntary private consumption. When an individual’s private activities cause harm to others, they become no longer merely a private matter but of legitimate public inter
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