Sentence examples for imposition of harm from inspiring English sources
DDT use affecting future generations through epigenetic harm seems to be a good provisional example of an unfair imposition of harm without corresponding benefit.
In "War and Murder," published in 1961, Anscombe notes that the moral permissibility of coercive authority requires a principle that can be used to differentiate the just imposition of harms from the unjust.
But coincidences of this kind -- which permit imposition of exceptional harm on one group provided the primary purpose of the harm is making money -- are precisely what is meant by the term "institutional racism".
Whilst likely unintended, the imposition of such harm is less than satisfactory – both morally and operationally.
Ginsburg expanded on the differences between the lack of liability under Mitchell I and the imposition of damages to compensate "for the harm caused by maladministration of the property".
Some governments are also responding, choosing to develop innovative policy tools, including supply chain due diligence obligations, disclosure and reporting regimes around human rights policies and impacts, and even exploring imposition of civil or criminal liability around harm.
But even assuming for the sake of argument that protocol developers could cause the type of harm that fiduciaries typically protect against, that still would not merit the imposition of fiduciary duties.
If people's self-conceptions are based on their participation in such groups, even those whose liberties are denied may object to, and perhaps in some way harmed by, the imposition of liberal principles (Margalit and Raz, 1990; Tamir, 1993).
Little chance of harm there.
Out of danger, out of harm.
