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Calilasseia wrote:Quite simply, the capacity for an action to result in benefit or harm being dispensed to another, is wholly separate and independent from whether or not that action was performed by choice. Indeed, it's possible for you to dispense harm to others, without even being aware that this is happening. For example, if you don't know you're a carrier of hepatitis B, you could kill whoever you have sex with, by passing on that virus, which can be transmitted sexually. That you were unaware at the time of your carrier status, doesn't stop the recipient of your virus from being dead afterwards. In such a scenario, you didn't choose to bring about that premature death, and almost certainly would have taken steps to stop this from happening if you had been aware of your carrier status. But that doesn't stop the consequences of your actions being malign.