J.S. Mill on Covid-19 lockdowns

“Many a person remains in the same town, street, or house from January to December, without a wish or thought tending towards removal, who, if confined to that same place by the mandate of authority, would find the imprisonment absolutely intolerable.”

Source: John Stuart Mill, Collected Works of John Stuart Mill: Principles of Political Economy [1848] Robson, J. M., ed. Books I-II. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2006, p. 213.)

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