An idea from On Liberty

When the public polices private life, it usually gets it wrong, because it goes by its own distaste. Picture a Muslim majority banning pork, or a Puritan one banning dancing and theater. If you’d object to them, you can’t use their reasoning yourself.

From On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

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