What is John Stuart Mill’s essay On Liberty saying:, the doctrine that he endorses runs something like this:
1) some people like obscenity: and those who don’t tend to find it filthy, horrible, revolting, and, probably, immoral.
2) But even if obscenity is filthy, horrible, revolting, even immoral, those who want it should be allowed to have it unless their doing so causes harm and this harm outweighs any good that it might also cause.
3)That something is immoral does not, as such, justify intervention at law: what is additionally required is that it should on balance bring about harm, and, if it does, this suffices for legal intervention whether or not there is immorality.
So there!
1) some people like obscenity: and those who don’t tend to find it filthy, horrible, revolting, and, probably, immoral.
2) But even if obscenity is filthy, horrible, revolting, even immoral, those who want it should be allowed to have it unless their doing so causes harm and this harm outweighs any good that it might also cause.
3)That something is immoral does not, as such, justify intervention at law: what is additionally required is that it should on balance bring about harm, and, if it does, this suffices for legal intervention whether or not there is immorality.
So there!
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