(June 11, 2015 at 7:52 pm)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote:(June 11, 2015 at 7:46 pm)Dystopia Wrote: How do you define harm? Because I could find arguments to make things you've never thought were harmful as harmful. And harmful to whom? To which class of people? Is it merely physical harm that counts? What about psychological damage?
I'll go with material harm since that's easiest to prove in a court of law.
We've had this argument before re. assisted suicide and the right to die, so I don't expect to agree with you.
Almost a year ago - I'm much more liberal with assisted suicide now (and euthanasia) but it isn't about that - I'm just asking you how do you define "material" harm? Let me ask a troubling question - Should an individual be allowed to keep, download and watch child porn as long as they don't sell or participate in it (assuming a priori that child porn is always illegal to film)?
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