Timeline for How would Kant/Mill justify causing somebody discomfort when doing the righteous thing?
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| Dec 31, 2020 at 18:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackPhilosophy/status/1344704903156035585 | ||
| Dec 31, 2020 at 1:43 | comment | added | Conifold | On Liberty, which you quote, is concerned with exercising government power. Moreover, the very next sentence says: "He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier". In other words, this has nothing to do with self-defense, which he endorses in the previous sentence:"the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection." And it is best not to mix Kant with Mill, their ethical principles are incompatible | |
| Dec 30, 2020 at 20:20 | comment | added | Mary | But a bully does cause harm, and standing up to him does prevent it. Even if the person harmed is yourself, you are an other person relative to him. | |
| Dec 30, 2020 at 9:37 | history | asked | Jim stoke | CC BY-SA 4.0 |