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The bad roads prohibit speeding.

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prohibit Discussion question: Do you think the government should take steps to prohibit the spread of pornography on the Internet? Oxford University has regulations which prohibit readers bringing sheep into the library.

Parliament is debating a proposition which would prohibit smoking in public places.

Provincial zoning laws prohibit the sale of farmland for any other purpose than farming.

Claude Helvetius once said that to limit the press is to insult a nation, and to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

Parliament is debating a proposition which would prohibit smoking in public places.

prosecute Many countries have passed laws to prohibit people from smoking in public places.

Claude Helvetius once said that to limit the press is to insult a nation, and to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

Claude Helvetius once said that to limit the press is to insult a nation, and to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

If, however, we include in the idea absence of pain and annoyance inflicted by others, it becomes at once evident that we cannot prohibit all such annoyances without restraining freedom of action to a degree that would be intolerable; since there is scarcely any gratification of a man’s natural impulses which may not cause some annoyance to others.

Just as each man is thought to have a natural right to personal security generally, but not if he is himself attempting to injure others in life and property: so if we may even kill in defence of ourselves and others, it seems strange if we may not lie, if lying will defend us better against a palpable invasion of our rights: and Common Sense does not seem to prohibit this decisively.

If, therefore, it is important for the well-being of society that men should derive hearty satisfaction from the punishment of a nefarious criminal, it is perhaps going too far to prohibit absolutely the desire of this satisfaction; though we may say[324] that a man ought not to cherish this desire, and gloat over the anticipated pleasure.

[249] [330] At first sight it may perhaps appear that the regulation of the sexual appetite prescribed by the received moral code merely confines its indulgence within the limits of the union sanctioned by law: only that here, as the natural impulse is peculiarly powerful and easily excited, it is especially necessary to prohibit any acts, internal as well as external, that tend even indirectly to the transgression of these limits.

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