John Stuart Mill asks where individual freedom should meet social control. Government is only part of the problem: pressure from majority opinion matters too. Start with his discussion of thought and debate, then test how his harm principle might distinguish dislike from an injury to others.
It edges The Prince because a newcomer can carry this question into many everyday disagreements. Machiavelli wins for a closer view of rulers retaining power. Mill's reasoning invites challenges about the boundary of harm; this is political philosophy, not a statement of today's law.
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