ple is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection...His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant." Mill deduces, therefore, that there are two ways that the state can interfere with its citizens – in order to prevent them from harming themselves and in order to prevent them from harming others. The first of these reasons is the significantly problematic one for Mill because of its paternalistic nature. Perhaps this is an ideal time for a brief definition of the very term paternalism. What constitutes paternalism is the assumption that the state should have the ab
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