Реферат: Drugs Legalization Essay Research Paper Should Drugs

Loosely paraphrased, the Harm Principle can be summarized as the rights of an

individual extend as far as his neighbors? face. Meaning that personal rights

are only endowed upon and justly held by the bearer of these rights so as long

that they do not harm nor infringe upon others? rights (Mill). In keeping with

this, a consequentialist would conclude that the use of drugs and the

legalization to further the use of these drugs are not a bad things so as the

consequences were not ill and no one but the user was possibly harmed.

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Company, 1999. Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty: Annotated Text Sources and

Background Criticism. Ed. David Spitz. New York: W.W. Norton & Company,

1975.