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The collective interests of society’s overall welfare, particularly in areas such as public health, where they may come into tension with individual liberty. Interpretations developed in the context of pandemics suggest that the legitimacy of measures such as mask mandates, quarantine regulations, and compulsory vaccination should be reconsidered in light of Mill’s harm principle. The central question concerns the point at which individual actions become a source of unjust harm to others and thereby justify legal intervention. Within a Millian framework, the public interest is grounded not as an abstract collective value but in the prevention of harm to individuals and the preservation of general happiness.