the conflation of enlightenment with hippy dippy peace and love shit is just marketing when it isn't PR cover for exploitation
harm that's remedied isn't harm that hasn't taken place neither is harm that's better than the alternative. the doctor doesn't put your gangrenous hand back together at all
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defining surgery as non-harm just reduces "harm" to a tautology because it only occurs with malice, which is demonstrated by the existence of the harm. so your guru could never have harmed you because he has no malice in him
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No, it doesn’t. Medical mistakes are harmful and not malicious. I agree with you that unconscious harm is a bigger problem (at least in many contexts and probably on net) than conscious harm, but a successful surgery (onethat leaves the patient better off) isn’t either of those.
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If the activity is of net benefit to a patient, that isn’t harmful on net, even though there are costs, like pain, money, and recovery time. But maybe we just have very different conceptions of harm.
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"not net harmful" got dragged as different from "not harmful" by no less than Epicurus
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