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    Collapsing wrongness into sanction-optimality confuses th... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Whether an action is wrong depends on whether it is optimal to apply sanctions to that action

    Collapsing wrongness into sanction-optimality confuses the criteria for moral assessment with the criteria for legal or social enforcement, a category error Mill's own harm principle resists.

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    Key Terms

    Category error(as used in logic and philosophy of language)
    A logical mistake where you apply a rule or concept to something it doesn't actually fit, like using a math formula on a poem.
    Collapsing(as used in logical argumentation)
    In philosophy, this means showing that two things we thought were different are actually the same or equally valid.
    Criteria for moral assessment(as used in ethics)
    The standards we use to judge whether something is right or wrong from an ethical perspective.
    Mill(as the subject being discussed)
    John Stuart Mill was a 19th-century British philosopher who wrote influential ideas about liberty, happiness, and what makes a good life.
    Sanction-optimality(as used in ethics and political philosophy)

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    Whether something would be approved or rewarded by laws, rules, or social punishment—what the system officially endorses or penalizes.
    harm principle(Associated with Mill; its necessity as a basis for liberty restrictions is questioned)
    The principle that restrictions on individual liberty are justified only when necessary to prevent harm to others
    wrongness(Offered as an example of a proposed naturalistic constitutive explanation, used to illustrate the failure of such accounts)
    According to meta-ethical utilitarian naturalism, for an action to be wrong is for it to fail to maximize the general happiness.

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