...guidance, Mill's writings are both helpful and unassailable. In On Liberty, he writes the following: The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitles to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion...

...principles: 'I do not believe that the state of our knowledge is such as to enable us to enunciate any "very simple principle as entitled to govern absolutely...society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control"'100 But Mill restricts the application of his principle both to agents satisfying certain...

...one of the first defences and interpretations of the harm principle. In On Liberty he says that he is to 'assert one very simple principle, as entitled...absolutely the dealings of society with the individual That principle is that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively,...

...interference of government is, with about equal frequency, improperly invoked and improperly condemned. [1.9] The object of this essay is to assert one very simple principle. It is entitled to govern absolutely in the dealings between society and the individual with regard...