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ASSESSMENT OF MILL'S "HARM PRINCIPLE" (A) THE HARM PRINCIPLE DOES NOT GO FAR ENOUGH (1) THE LAW SHOULD COVER MORALITY DEVLIN'S ARGUMENT Devlin argues that it is appropriate for the law to enforce morality, as well as preventing harm. He claims that a shared moral code is a necessary condition for the very existence of a community. Shared moral convictions function as "invisible bonds" tying individuals together into an orderly society. Therefore society has as much right to protect its moral code by legal coercion as it does to protect its equally indispensable political institutions. "The suppression of vice is as much the law's business as the suppression of subversive activities; it is no more possible to define a sphere of private morality than it is to define one of private subversive activity." This is not to say that society must never change its moral code. If enough people show they feel strongly about some...

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