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pembrookyesterday at 3:08 PM1 replyview on HN

Yes raising the barriers to what we consider harm is a good thing. Also, nobody is talking about harassment, that's already illegal.

In modern developed economies we don't have a problem with the barriers to harm being too low. We've got the opposite problem, where we've become deathly afraid of trivial imagined harm, resulting in us basically never doing anything and regulating new things out of existence (just look at the housing issue in cities in pretty much every developed country for example).


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tim-projectsyesterday at 9:06 PM

> trivial imagined harm

No harm is trivial. And imagined harm is not harm - it's lying (and should be dealt with appropriately).

As a society setting laws on what level of harm should be justified without action - is obviously up for debate. But denying genuine suffering never should be. And what's genuine is up to the individual. You can't go around telling people they aren't suffering in a just society.