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.....[T]he sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. . . . the only purpose for which power can be rightly exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.
..........— John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), English political economist, philosopher. On Liberty (1859), ch. 1.
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