John Stuarts Mill's approach to liberty

<Tab/>Liberty is one of the greatest ideas ever to occur naturally. John Stuart Mill's approach to liberty is freedom to do anything except harm others because that is an infringement on that person's liberty. While people cannot hurt anyone else, they can hurt themselves because it is their liberty. If people act on their liberty and harm themselves then society can do nothing to stop them. If society acts then …

…theories of liberty. It is true that much of liberty has very strong repercussions on all of society but for society to try to control liberty would be the worst possible thing that it could ever do. According to Mill, a person's self-interest is strong enough to make sure that the liberty granted the person is used in a way that will do no harm to others and will contribute to society as a whole.