PHILOS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Only Time, H. L. A. Hart, Morality
31 Jan 2020
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Exercising collectively, but directly, several parts of complete sovereignty; in deliberating, in the public square . Give as much freedom as possible with one exception. Harm principal" the sole end which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any their number self- protection the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised is to prevent harm to others . Only time government can infringe on freedom is to stop them from causing harm to someone else. As long as one is not causing harm to someone government should not interfere. Free to do whatever we want as long as no injury to property to others like steal money or broke arm or psychologically hurt. Steven: mill"s argument allows behaviours that we don"t want/like certain things you can do that can upset the fellow citizens (like having against suicide, hard drug use, public nudity)
