On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 8:20 pm, Jim Swayze wrote:
>> Todd >  the Least Harm Principle is notoriously difficult to apply.
>
> Sounds Millsian.

It is.  It's a limited version of Mill's Principle of Utility.  Instead 
of maximizing pleasure (which is itself problematic), it entails 
minimizing harm.  But it's a simplistic application of the principle to 
equate all harm to what it would be for a human being in the prime of 
life.

Todd Moody