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Yeah I agree. But the crucial difference is, physical/meat damage is objective, whereas emotional pain is only subjective (you can't prove it to anyone else, an
by tomp 8y ago
Yeah I agree. But the crucial difference is, physical/meat damage is objective, whereas emotional pain is only subjective (you can't prove it to anyone else, and you can also make it up). Basing policy on subjective whims is bad.
- tomhoward 8y agoThe "reasonable person" is a well-established principle in law, used to test whether someone's subjective claims of harm should be considered valid from an objective viewpoint. Few would question that a "reasonable person" whose child was killed in a mass murder would be harmed by harassment, abuse, and claims the event didn't happen. I'm not normally any kind of bleeding heart, but stuff like this isn't difficult.
- zmix 8y ago> Basing policy on subjective whims is bad. True, but not enough for me. Though, I do not have the solution.