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A pluralist case for the harm principle

dc.contributor.authorRibeiro, Gonçalo Almeida
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-06T12:37:08Z
dc.date.available2022-07-06T12:37:08Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractShould the law interfere with individual choices and actions that cause no harm to others but that are regarded as wrong? Is it permissible for the law to restrain individual freedom not for the sake of preventing harm to others but in order to prevent people from performing immoral deeds or from debasing or harming themselves? Doubtless that is the purpose of some laws, although it is not always easy to tell which and to what extent, since most laws pursue, or can be interpreted to pursue, a variety of goals. Standard examples of moralist legislation, such as the criminalization of bigamy, and of paternalist legislation, such as bans on the sale of body parts, may with more or less ingenuity be construed as measures taken to prevent harm to others. It seems indeed that it is not so easy to isolate obvious cases of laws uniquely infused with moralist or paternalist concerns.pt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.issn0036-4037
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/38108
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.titleA pluralist case for the harm principlept_PT
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.endPage380pt_PT
oaire.citation.issue2pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage361pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleSan Diego Law Reviewpt_PT
oaire.citation.volume54pt_PT
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typearticlept_PT

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