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Blackmail

rs might not care one-way or the other. The last few would agree with me about stopping the person from committing suicide. I feel it would be morally wrong not even try to stop that person from committing suicide. Usually a person that wants to commit suicide is not mentally sane in the way of making a decision to kill him or herself. So, it would not be consented to harm which then it would be morally wrong to not try to stop them, this would be an example of weak paternalism. If a person was suffering in a hospital bed and wanted to pull the plug the it would be consented to harm to oneself and would be morally wrong to stop that person, because you will be causing that person more harm that if they were dead, this is an example of strong paternalism. If Mill explained his weak and strong paternalism better then, I would have agreed with him from the beginning.Indecent exposure could possibly be harmful to a person because I have met a girl here at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and she can barely stand some words that come out of peoples mouths and for someone to expose him or herself could quite possibly traumatize her or some people like her to do this would be strong paternalism. It is morally wrong to expose oneself to others, unless you have the consent of that person, if you do not then it is common sense not to expose yourself to others. Pretty much the only time you would get consent is when you and your partner are about to do some sort of sexual oriented activity or at a strip club, this is an example of weak paternalism because at a strip you can choose to go inside or not. You know what goes on behind those walls, so you pretty much waive your rights to having someone not expose him or herself to you.Mill might say that someone should not be offended or harmed by a person exposing him or herself in public. He might say that people have a choice whether to look or not. This would make some sense if that pe...

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