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Is The Need To Prevent Individuals Harming Other Human Beings The Only Sound Justification For Government Action?
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Is The Need To Prevent Individuals Harming Other Human Beings The Only Sound Justification For Government Action? Modern society invariably involves a system of laws that sets out the rights and duties bestowed upon the individuals that make up the society. By its nature a system of laws is restrictive, as it puts limits on what people are allowed to do and / or gives guidelines laying out what an individual must do. Individual liberty is therefore compromised but the question is - how far can individual liberty be compromised? This essay will explore the liberal answers to this question, a view championed by John Stuart Mill, and evaluate the effectiveness of the harm principle when applied to both practical situations and ethical theory and will attempt to show that government intervention can stretch beyond the harm principle. This Liberal idea of the harm principle is put best by J....
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