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    Mill endorses the maxim volenti non fit injuria — Carmelics
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    Supports→Mill's harm principle is fundamentally concerned with non-consensual harm, not harm in general

    Mill endorses the maxim volenti non fit injuria

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    Fourth, though Mill often focuses simply on harm, it appears that his real focus is on non-consensual harm (I 2; see Saunders 2016). He endorses the maxim volenti non fit injuria, which he glosses in Utilitarianism as the doctrine that “that is not unjust which is done with the consent of the person who is supposed to be hurt by it” (U V 28). It is not that one cannot be hurt by something one has consented to or freely risked. Rather, when one has knowingly and willing risked something harmful,

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