Defining harm: The harm principle and religious rights in South Africa

Liberal Egalitarianism and the Harm Principle

This paper analyses Rawls’s celebrated di¤erence principle, and its lexicographic extension, in societies with a …nite and an in…nite number of agents. A uni…ed framework of analysis is set up, which allows one to characterise Rawlsian egalitarian principles by means of a weaker version of a new axiom the Harm Principle recently proposed by [13]. This is quite surprising, because the Harm princ...

"harm, Athletes’ Rights and Doping Control"

In the following paper an attempt is made to provide practical solutions regarding doping control and athletes’ rights in Canada, focusing on the current situation in which there are bans and testing, even though some question the justification of those bans. An explanation of the moral implications of doping control protocols, indicating the tension between these protocols and athletes rights,...

Defining and redefining harm reduction in the Lao context

The response to drug use in Laos has focused on reducing opium supply (supply reduction) and rates of drug use (demand reduction). However, recently there is increased interest among government counterparts to discuss and develop broader responses to injecting drug use (IDU) including the introduction of harm reduction programs. The concept of harm reduction has just been introduced to Lao PDR ...

Xenotransplantation and the harm principle : Factoring out foreseen risk

Xenotransplantation – the transplantation, implantation, or infusion of live cells, tissues or organs from a nonhuman animal source into humans – has been suggested as the most imminent strategy to alleviate the shortage of human grafts. The pursuit of this technology is nonetheless restricted by an unquantifiable risk that the use of animal grafts will unleash new zoonoses that may affect the ...

Does Inflation Harm Economic Growth In Iran?