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    Causing harm provides a pro tanto reason to regulate an a... — Carmelics
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    Causing harm provides a pro tanto reason to regulate an action, but this reason may be outweighed by countervailing reasons not to regulate

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    • 1.Causing harm is always a non-negligible reason to regulate an action
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    • 2.A pro tanto reason can be outweighed by stronger countervailing considerations
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    • 3.If regulation is more harmful than the behavior being regulated, the pro tanto case for regulation is outweighed
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    • 1.Rights function as side-constraints, not merely as weights in a balancing calculus, so harm-based regulation cannot be outweighed by aggregate welfare gains.
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    • 2.Treating rights violations as pro tanto reasons converts deontological constraints into consequentialist trade-offs, collapsing the distinction Nozick argues is morally essential.
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    • 1.The pro tanto framework presupposes a commensurable scale on which harms and regulatory costs can be compared, but incommensurable values resist such aggregation (Raz, 'The Morality of Freedom').
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    • 2.When competing considerations are genuinely incommensurable, the balancing model yields no determinate answer, making 'outweighing' a rhetorical rather than rational operation.
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    Causing harm is always a non-negligible reason to regulate an action88%Whether restrictions on harmful conduct are fully justified depends on...86%If regulation is more harmful than the behavior being regulated, the p...86%There may be countervailing reasons not to regulate conduct even if so...85%

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    This suggests that Mill’s position is that causing harm is always pro tanto reason—a non-negligible reason—to regulate the action, but nonetheless a reason that might be outweighed by countervailing reasons not to regulate. If the regulation is more harmful than the behavior in question, it may be best not to regulate, despite the pro tanto case for regulation. This suggests that we should distinguish stronger and weaker versions of the idea that harm is sufficient to justify regulation.
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    When competing considerations are genuinely incommensurable, the balancing model...
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