Mill: a punitive reprimand

After considering Tina’s questions, I will submit that Mill tends to be in strong favor of associating crime with punishment. Although I think his thoughts on “the tyranny of the majority” are enlightening to his opinions on “limits”, I think that he simultaneously puts too much trust in the ability of the Majority to make good decisions or to do so “oftener.” To Ryan’s question: privacy (or the reasonable expectation of it) - privacy is paradoxically dwindling at the behest of terrorism and the Utilitarian ideas associated with relinquishing it [privacy].

Constructing “good” and “evil” aside, in a civilized society (consisting of a clear majority), is it better to deter crime with physical coercion/punishment? or with moral persuasion?

Is it logical to assign (to humankind) “duties” in upholding liberty?