‘But You Could Have Hurt Me!’: Risk and Harm
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Abstract This paper answers two questions. First, on the assumption that risk of harm is moral significance, does risk’s significance lay in its being harmful? Second, itself I argue either not harmful or only a small range cases. If harmful, and yet cannot lie harmful. And if cases which
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Law and Philosophy
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['0167-5249', '1573-0522']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10982-021-09433-7