The harm is civic.
They can counsel others to produce harm.
(Mill must have meant “undue harm,” since it’s impossible to do anything without causing some harm, real or imagined, to someone, somewhere.)
All of these decisions are based on four 'harms' - the harm caused by Covid directly; the harm caused to other parts of the health service as a result; the social harm on things such as people's mental health; and the economic harm.
This requires us to interpret the harm principle as HP2B.
Indeed, they could say that while death can harm us, posthumous events cannot.
Claudia Card describes the harm of evil as an intolerable harm.
That is quite possible—that an individual argument might cause more harm than good.
To approach this issue, it will be helpful to consider the so called harm principle.
Harm prevention is neither necessary nor sufficient to restrict individual liberties.
If the threshold notion of harm applies, we find that harm was caused.
We could then combine a contractualist account of certain harm with a utilitarian account of risks of harm.
Whatever view of harm we take, we must also decide whether all harms count for the purposes of a given harm principle.
For example, we naturally flinch more strongly from causing harm to someone than from allowing the same harm to happen.
Conversely, we may be able to prevent harm only by criminalizing conduct that is harmless, and that does not unreasonably risk harm.
It is reasonable to assume that agents who regret causing harm will be disposed to avoid causing the harm or to minimize how much of it they cause.
The fact that Mill thinks Samaritan laws can be squared with the harm principle (I 11) is evidence that he understands the harm principle in terms of harm prevention.
Presumably, the threshold should vary inversely with the magnitude of the harm risked, so that the probability of harm required to justify regulation is lower the greater the harm risked.
After we have satisfied ourselves that a defendant is culpable—either because she intended or foresaw some harm, or because she was unreasonable in not foreseeing some harm, the foreseeability test bids us to ask “Was the harm foreseeable?”
They typically continue to maintain either that pornography does not cause harm to women (in the relevant, usually narrow, sense of ‘harm’), or they admit that pornography probably does cause some harm to women's interests, but deny that this harm is sufficiently great to offset the dangers inherent in censorship and to justify the violation of the rights of pornographers and would-be consumers.
harm
verb body
- cause or do harm to
Example: These pills won't harm your system
noun state
- any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury
noun event
- the occurrence of a change for the worse
noun act
- the act of damaging something or someone
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They typically continue to maintain either that pornography does not cause harm to women in the relevant usually narrow sense of harm or they admit that pornography probably does cause some harm to women's interests but deny that this harm is sufficiently great to offset the dangers inherent in censorship and to justify the violation of the rights of pornographers and would-be consumers