 However, liberals insist that if attempts at persuasion should fail, and where an individual’s conduct poses no significant threat to the physical security or interests of others, the state may not use coercive legal mechanisms to enforce these “wise” choices. “The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it” (Mill 1975, 18). For Mill, the individual person is in the best position to judge what is in their own best interests. Even if individuals may sometimes make bad choices, it is better in general that they be left free to make these mistakes, for no one’s opinion about the good life is infallible; and, in any case, a life lived “from the inside,” in accordance with values that the individual endorses, is more likely to be happy and fulfilling than a life where the individual is forced against their will to live as others believe best.