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Paternalism

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Paternalism: restricting a person's liberty for their own good—the interference the harm principle rules out for competent adults.

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Seatbelt laws, sugar taxes, banned substances: each protects people chiefly from themselves, and each starts a harm-principle fight.

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Mill allowed exceptions—children, and famously, stopping a man crossing a collapsing bridge he cannot know about.