...social body. In order to justify compelling a person to do what another believes is best, Mill adds, "the conduct from which it is desired to deter him must be calculated to produce evil in someone else ... Over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign."" Hill claims it is irrelevant...

...others, to do so would be wise, or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating with him...but not for compelling him, or visiting him with any evil...to deter him, must be calculated to produce evil to someone else. The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that...

...Someone's own good is a good reason for: "remonstrating with him, or reasoning with him, or persuading him, or entreating him, but not for compelling him,...with any evil in case he do otherwise." To justify such coercion requires that the conduct in question is likely to produce evil to some one else. Regarding...

...reasons for remonstrating with [any member of a civilized community] or reasoning with him or persuading him or entreating him [but not for] compelling him,...visiting him with any evil in case he do otherwise' (Mill 1975: 15). Mill clearly thought persuasion was permissible and, intuitively, this seems correct....

...over any member of a civilized community against his will, is to prevent personal harm to others.... To justify that, the conduct from which it is desired...to deter him must be calculated to produce evil to someone else.'100 Mill eventually acknowledged that the rule was not quite as clear-cut as might first...

...even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating with him, or reasoning with him, or persuading him, or entreating him, but not for compelling him,...visiting him with any evil in case he do otherwise. (CW XVIII: 223-4) A number of lines of argument in Mill's moral philosophy all converge on this central...

...them, or entreating them, but not for compelling them, or visiting them with any evil in case they do otherwise. To justify that, the conduct from which it is desired to deter them must be calculated to produce evil to someone else. The only part of our conduct for which we...