Post por messi05 en Jan 24, 2024 7:19:00 GMT
One of the main thinkers of classical liberalism, John Stuart Mill maintains, in his best-known work, the principle that the individual must be free to act as he pleases and he “cannot be legitimately compelled to do or refrain from doing because it is better for him, because it will make him happy, because, in the opinion of others, doing so would be wiser or even right (…)” [1] . However, for Mill, “the only purpose of legitimately exercising power over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to avoid harm to others”.
Further on, he states verbatim: “It is perhaps Buy Phone Number List needless to say that this doctrine applies only to human beings who have reached the maturity of their faculties. We do not, therefore, refer to children, or young people whose age is below that determined by law as the age of majority”. Well then. It is known that Mill represents one of the classic thinkers of what is conventionally understood by supporters of the minimal State, that modality of life in society in which, from an economic point of view, human freedom and the least possible interference in life and in people's choices by the state apparatus.
However, it is necessary to recognize that, among the increasingly ardent defenders of one or another economic model, few are those who have actually read the authors that support their doctrines of interest. As a result, the increasingly heated debate becomes shallow, mistaken, emotional and not at all pragmatic. The excerpt highlighted above, however, remains very current and deserves to be invoked to illuminate the reflections still being raised about the possibility or not of the State acting to discourage smoking.
Further on, he states verbatim: “It is perhaps Buy Phone Number List needless to say that this doctrine applies only to human beings who have reached the maturity of their faculties. We do not, therefore, refer to children, or young people whose age is below that determined by law as the age of majority”. Well then. It is known that Mill represents one of the classic thinkers of what is conventionally understood by supporters of the minimal State, that modality of life in society in which, from an economic point of view, human freedom and the least possible interference in life and in people's choices by the state apparatus.
However, it is necessary to recognize that, among the increasingly ardent defenders of one or another economic model, few are those who have actually read the authors that support their doctrines of interest. As a result, the increasingly heated debate becomes shallow, mistaken, emotional and not at all pragmatic. The excerpt highlighted above, however, remains very current and deserves to be invoked to illuminate the reflections still being raised about the possibility or not of the State acting to discourage smoking.