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Assignment:
Based on J. Stuart Mill ( On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays)
1. How are those who follow customs like apes?
2. Freedom of behavior did not exist in early human society. Why not?
3. How does liberty promote progress?
4. What are the threats to liberty identified by Mill?
5. When should society refrain from limiting liberty, even for the purpose of preventing harm to others?
6. Within a representative democracy, who is to be denied the vote and who is to be given multiple votes?
7. Why isn't voting a right, according to Mill's letters?
8. What alternative to his own plural voting system does Mill endorse in his letters?
9. What functions should government perform, and which ones should it refrain from performing, according to the excerpts from Mill's Political Economy that we read?
10. How much social control can legitimately be exercised against people receiving public assistance?