The Principles of Political Economy

Henry Sidgwick

Book 3, Chapter 3, Footnote #03
Objection to Mill


For instance, I do not see on what grounds it can be maintained that ``it is not a merely constructive or presumptive injury to others which will justify the interference of the law with individual freedom'' (Mill, On Liberty, ch. 4). It appears to me that, on utilitarian principles, all we can say is that the presumption must be strong enough to outweigh the direct and indirect mischief of coercion.


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