Walking around topless in a city should be based upon the law congruent with popular standards. (Societies Mean). Mill standards would agree with this law, but popular penal codes suggest that, states "classification of lewd behavior with public indecency." The only law that has been passed in the showing of female breasts in magazine publications. (Foreign not domestic).
Mill would indeed not agree with a law that is based on popular standard, i.e., what the majority of people consider as appropriate. Law based on popular standard is what Mill deems the “tyranny of the majority.”
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