No one is harmed, for instance, by a moderate indulgence in alcoholic liquor; but since drunkenness is harmful both to the individual and society, the state, it is said, is justified in prohibiting the manufacture or sale of alcoholic liquor.
Laski uses the example of alcohol to illustrate the tension between individual freedom and societal harm, questioning state intervention.
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