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Comment: “The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number is self-protection.” (J.S. Mill)

  • UPSC 2005
  • Western Political Thought

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The sentence is the core of the first chapter of John Stuart Mill's On Liberty (1859). There he announces one very simple principle to govern all compulsion, whether by legal penalty or by the moral coercion of public opinion. Power may rightly be used against a member of a civilised community only to prevent harm…

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