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The 14 pages that link to Harm principle, each with the reason it gives.

• John Stuart MillBroader topic: Mill uses it to mark the boundary between individual freedom and legitimate social control.

• PaternalismCompared with: It draws a direct boundary between preventing harm to others and enforcing self-regarding welfare.

• Sexual ethicsCompared with: It offers a boundary for deciding when consensual sexual conduct warrants social or legal restriction.

• Actus reusRelated: It helps explain why criminal law ordinarily targets conduct and consequences rather than mere disapproval.

• Negative libertyRelated: It supplies Mill’s influential criterion for permitting interference with conduct.

• Secular ethicsRelated: It offers a secular criterion for limiting individual liberty through law.

• Individual libertyRelated: It offers a boundary between protected choice and permissible restriction.

• On LibertyBroader topic: It states the essay’s central test for limiting individual freedom.

• Anti-pornography movementRelated: Legal debates ask whether pornography causes harms sufficient to justify restricting expression.

• LibertyRelated: It offers a criterion for distinguishing justified limits from undue restrictions.

• T. H. GreenCompared with: Green’s defense of social intervention differs from Mill’s stricter account of coercion.

• Public-order crimeRelated: It provides a standard for questioning offenses that lack a directly identifiable victim.

• Cultural liberalismBroader topic: It offers a specific test for when social or legal restrictions are justified.

• Victimless crimeRelated: It supplies a prominent test for whether conduct without an identifiable victim should be criminalized.