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    It is not the case that When an individual's private activities cause harm to others, the state may be justified in regulating those activities.

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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