Are there any circumstances in which an action is morally wrong even if nobody is harmed?
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The person performing the morally wrong action is usually harmed by it, in one way or another.
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In the act itself or considering also it's probabilistic effects on precedent, expectation, tit-for-tat equilibrium, etc?
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I kinda think the phrasing is suboptimal?
To this question I'd answer "yes"; to one asking, "even if it would not harm anyone".
Shooting a gun into a crowd is morally wrong, even if - unbeknownst to you - the gun was filled with blanks
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Driving drunk and not hitting someone. Gambling your child's college tuition and breaking even. Basically doing anything that could reasonably cause harm, or doing something with direct intent to cause harm, and failing
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