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    Challenges→The threshold of risk required to justify regulation under the harm principle should vary inversely with the magnitude of the harm risked.

    Once magnitude can lower the probability threshold toward zero, nearly any human activity becomes regulable by hypothesizing sufficiently severe downstream harms, destroying the principle's action-guiding specificity.

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    Key Terms

    Principle(T'oegye's metaphysics)
    Equated with the Supreme Ultimate; the source of the possibility for all existence, representing the potential of a thing that precedes its actual realisation.
    Probability threshold(in epistemology (the study of knowledge))
    A minimum level of likelihood or certainty needed to reasonably believe something is true.
    action-guiding specificity(as used in ethics and principles)
    The quality of being clear and specific enough to actually tell people what they should or shouldn't do, rather than being so vague it's useless as guidance.
    downstream harms(as used in ethics and causation)
    Negative consequences that happen later or indirectly as a result of an action, like ripple effects from a stone thrown in water.
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    A property encompassing spatial extension, thickness, and bulk, without which a thing would be nothing (i.e., could be added or removed without effect)
    regulable(as used in law and governance)
    Able to be controlled, restricted, or governed by rules or laws.

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