The Scope of the Means Principle

Abstract This paper focuses on Quong’s account of the scope means principle (the range actions over which special constraint using a person applies). One key ideas underpinning approach is that downstream from an independent and morally prior our rights world against one another. I raise three challenges to this ‘rights first’ approach. First, consider treatment harmful omissions argue view generates counter-intuitive results. Second, cases problems for claim intentions are irrelevant permissibility. Third, extension include uses persons’ rightfully-owned property . suggest that, contra Quong , questions distributive justice not ethics defensive harm. Instead two normative domains mutually inform