Ben’s Reviews > The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse > Status Update

the “harm principle” seems like it provides a basis for forbidding conquest / aggression. But if you think about it more, a lot of controversy stems from where one person definition of “harm” encompasses another person’s “isolated” behavior - eg doing narcotics by myself changes me into an addict and then “harms” the social fabric of the community (since who wants to be friends with an addict?)