Consider the judges who "bestow on the dissolute the labour of the industrious; and put into the hands of the vicious the means of harming both themselves and others" (Hume, Treatise, 579).
The five-page indictment alleges that Mack and Raniere coerced people into sex acts and forced labor by "means of serious harm or threats of serious harm".
According to indictment of Mack and the group's leader, Keith Raniere, NXIVM masqueraded as a self-help operation that, in actuality, coerced members into sex acts and even forced labor by "means of serious harm or threats of serious harm".
"That means full of harm".
"If the defendants are or have become disciples of Al Qaeda," the judge said, "and believe in self-destruction as a legitimate means of causing harm to others, there are no conditions that could be imposed that would deter such acts of self-destruction other than detention".
This would, however, be to cut down severely the job description of the sort of limitation principle that has been sought by means of the harm principle.
The ethics of reproducing is surely complicated, but, again, it is not clear that ensuring F3's existence by means of inducing harm in those who come to exist is an obviously right action.
We also consulted specialists in paediatrics, cardiology and endocrinology; and held a series of consensus conferences, examining incidence, causality and potential impact of risks, through which we have formulated advice to clinicians about the frequency and severity of each and the means of reducing harm or reacting to adverse events if they should occur.
"A situation like this does not mean anything of harm to the coalition, but in many ways it brings us closer together," said a Royal Air Force group captain, Jon Fynes.
