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    Feinberg's account of harm as wrongful setback to interes... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Competitive economic losses are not harms in the relevant sense because they are consensual.

    Feinberg's account of harm as wrongful setback to interests is independent of consent, since consent to competition does not entail consent to every method employed within it.

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    • 1.Consenting to participate in boxing does not entail consenting to being struck with a lead pipe, showing consent has scope limits.
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    • 2.Harm is fundamentally about setbacks to interests (health, autonomy, property), not merely about what parties explicitly agreed to allow.
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    • 3.If consent could override any harm assessment, then consensual slavery or organ harvesting would be harmless, which is counterintuitive.
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    • 1.Distinguishing 'legitimate' from 'illegitimate' competition methods requires independent moral criteria beyond Feinberg's harm principle.
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    • 2.If consent truly doesn't limit harm assessment, it becomes unclear why consensual risk-taking in extreme sports isn't classified as harmful.
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    • 3.Feinberg's framework may conflate harm (objective setback) with wrongfulness, which arguably depends partly on whether participants consented.
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