LWSO 413 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: 10 Downing Street, Problem Gambling, Harm Principle
17 Oct 2016
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Harm principle no legal or societal pressure permissible to cause an individual to refrain from harming herself or himself domain of liberty which encompasses charter s. 2 rights thought and expression. Mill acknowledges a right to punish for incitement of violence hard cases: expression that cause harm. Mill"s utilitarianism assumes that the greatest good is achieved by letting all the ideas get out there into the world (even the completely wrong ideas of the anti-vaxxers, for e. g. ) No one pretends that actions should be as free as opinions. On the contrary, even opinions lose their immunity when the circumstances in which they are expressed are such as to constitute their expression a positive instigations to some mischievous act. Sometimes acts need to be controlled by social or legal pressure. Growth of the individual is good for the collective "race" Could end with point that individualism is beneficial for race. Masses rule, white/middle class -> mediocrity in government.
