...individual should be left completely free. John Stuart Mill, in his famous essay 'On Liberty 'said, "The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually...interfering with the liberty of action of any of their member, is self-protection. The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member...

...against paternalistic interference in adult behavior when it is not harmful to others: "[T]he sole aim for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively,...with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection."4 From 1858, when Mill retired from the East India Company with an adequate pension,...

...to states. This principle, as put forward in Mill's On Liberty, runs as follows: That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted,...self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm...

...force in the form of legal penalties, or [by] the moral coercion of public opinion. That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted,...self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm...

...that Mill's liberal analysis holds true for all health care decisions involving competent patients. '...that the sole end for which mankind are warranted,...self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightly exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm...

...form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public opinion. That principle," Mill proceeds, is that the sole end for which mankind are warranted...self-protection; that the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm...

...for mediation between individual and collective interests. The principle he proposes is as follows: That the sole end for which mankind are warranted,...self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm...

...physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public opinion. That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted,...action of any of their number, is self-protection . . .8 Indeed, readers of Mill's books cannot avoid the feeling that the number "one" was Mill's favorite....

...the "ends justifying the means." The harm principle states: . . . the sole end for which mankind is warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering...self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm...

...every other individual. Thus Mill's "harm principle" is as follows: The sole end for which mankind [is] warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering...self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm...