Harm and consent to harm as subjective beliefs

Posted by admin on May 3rd, 2011 filed in General

It must be clear that the issue of harm, and consent to harm, are subjective beliefs. Not that i’m disagreeing about it, but even still judges and indeed legislators are creative in justifying criminalising ‘consensual’ behaviour. ie. factors vitiating consent.

Further more one might consider that among libertarians, there exists a great spectrum as to the opinion of how important self and self rights are.

To complicate matters, one might want to consider how rights to self are derived (ie. often viewed as natural rights), and thus impacting on how absolute such rights are. ie. Locke v Nozick etc etc etc.

Ivan