This study analysed the impact of two taxation measures, with opposite effects on the price of RTDs, on alcohol-related harm seen in emergency departments.
The clear distinction between management and prevention of self-harm was particularly evident in the accounts characterised by the experience of traumatic life events, with self-harm seen as an important coping mechanism for dealing with distress: " I made a pact with myself; I was going to overdose on Thursday.
Although it has certain elements in common with the self-harming seen in burning or cutting of the skin – low self-esteem and a sense of dissatisfaction with oneself – there are also key differences.
If it is evil to sadistically, yet painlessly, destroy someone's reputation, and only painful experiences are harmful, then some evil actions are not harmful (for more about different conceptions of harm see Nagel 1970; Kagan 1998, 29 41).
Only reluctantly did he sign the punitive "manifesto" drafted by an émigré, which warned that Paris would be subjected to exemplary punishment if Louis XVI and his family were harmed (see French Revolution).
The pathologist, Dr Nicholas Hunt, wrote in his report that the fact Kelly had removed his watch and spectacles pointed towards the cuts to his left arm "being an act of self-harm" (see 9.54am post).
A little light exercise never did any harm (see our exercise tips) and in fact, it's good to get the endorphins moving (those feel-good chemicals in your body that come out to play when you exercise or dance).
For the wording of these notions of harm see Pogge (2003).
For more on private versus public harms see, for example, Bator (1958), Head (1962), and Baumol and Oates (1988).
Even the more limited category of conduct that causes harm becomes problematic when we ask what counts as causing harm (see Simester and von Hirsch 2011: chs.
But, second, the Model Penal Code also limits the criminal law's concern to conduct that "unjustifiably and inexcusably inflicts or threatens substantial harm" (see also Feinberg 1984: 31 6), and most criminal codes include similar limitations.
