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"There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political despotism."
The limit, of course, is the tip of one's nose, the edges of one's life.
'Mind your own business, keep your hands to yourself, or else.'
It's 'or else' that introduces the conundrum: how does one defend one's 'self' against against the weight of all others, how do you stake out the edges of your life and say 'this far and no farther' and make it stick?
Bluntly: how do you preserve autonomy?
The answer is obvious.
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