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1109 GIR - POLITICS Freedom your name, number, question, concept chosen, article chosen and word count 1001GIR Introduction to Politics- Assignment 1 Freedom: “Community order for Llandudno Muslim man who claimed religion allowed him to hit wife” By Owen Hughes Charlotte Brontë once said “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”(BrainyQuote 2001) This provides a basic summary for the values of negative liberty. A liberty, which argues that to be completely free, is to be free from all interference. In the web article written by James Arlandson of the American Thinker website, he writes about ten rules in the Quran which allow Muslim men to treat their wife or wives in a callous…show more content…
To have total non-interference, regardless of religious beliefs would lead to wide spread acts of crime and cruelty. This theory is known as the J.S Mills “Harm Principle”. Mills, an English philosopher developed this principle to merge freedoms that were wanted by individuals but would also lead to the betterment of society. He believed that intervention was only necessary if the exercise of negative liberty caused harm to…show more content…
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