 This result suggests that if we wish to respect individual rights, we may sometimes have to sacrifice Paretian efficiency. Hence, Sen’s spoke of the ‘impossibility of a Paretian liberal’. An alternative conclusion is that the weak Pareto principle can be rendered compatible with minimal liberalism only if the domain of admissible preference profiles is suitably restricted, for instance to preferences that are ‘tolerant’ or not ‘meddlesome’ (Blau 1975; Craven 1982; Gigliotti 1986; Sen 1983). Lewd’s and Prude’s preferences in Sen’s example are ‘meddlesome’. Each of them ‘meddles’ with the other’s private sphere.