Your English writing platform
Discover LudwigExact(8)
As it happens, our sensations serve us well in avoiding harms and pursuing benefits.
The Mohist position promises a foundational standard for dealing with such conflicts promoting benefits and avoiding harms, with each person being counted equally.
A smaller number of experts discussed conflicting values in terms of avoiding harms and delivering benefits.
Experts' reasoning was grounded in how they conceived of and prioritised their underlying values including: delivering benefits, avoiding harms, delivering more benefits than harms, respecting autonomy and transparency.
They thought delivering benefits should take priority over avoiding harms: "[Some] professionals may put a higher weight and value on 'first do no harm'.
This expert saw both avoiding harms and delivering benefits as being important, but because harms were, in their view, so large, was not supportive of the breast-screening programme.
Similar(52)
But avoiding harm is not the same thing as getting benefit.
One possible change would add a new exception for avoiding harm to children.
But avoiding harm to its own people is rarely a consideration for the government.
In other words, when it comes to avoiding harm, we try to treat everyone equally, but when it comes to saving lives, age plays an important role.
Guidelines for avoiding harm to endangered species apply.
Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.
Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com