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Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

As it is useful that while mankind are imperfect there should be different opinions, so is it that there should be different experiments of living; that free scope should be given to varieties of character, short of injury to others; and that the worth of different modes of life should be proved practically, when any one thinks fit to try them. It is desirable, in short, that in things which do not primarily concern others, individuality should assert itself. Where, not the person's own character, but the traditions of customs of other people are the rule of conduct, there is wanting one of the principal ingredients of human happiness, and quite the chief ingredient of individual and social progress.

Which of the following examples might one offer to support the underlined claim?

A person with lots of debts should be allowed to not pay her taxes.
A person should be allowed to play her music as loud as she wants, so long as it does not disturb the peace of her neighbors.
A person should be allowed to call in a fake bomb threat to the school to repay someone in the school who bullied him.
A person should be allowed to catch and punish a thief, so long as the authorities haven't caught the thief yet.

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The key here is not to harm another. All of the answers can be harmful towards another except playing music loudly, without interfering with the neighbors. Not paying taxes, bomb threats, and vigilantism are all detrimental to others.

The correct answer is: A person should be allowed to play her music as loud as she wants, so long as it does not disturb the peace of her neighbors.

Indeed, the excerpt comes from John Stuart Mill, a British philosopher who supported individual rights and called for limitation of social and state control. The chosen sentence deals with his harm principle: that no individual behavior should be forbidden unless it harms others. If this hypothetical person plays her music as loud as she wants but the neighbors are not disturbed by it, she should be allowed to continue doing so because her behavior does not harm others.

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