Harmlessness

Definition and stakes

Portrait of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche,  Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“ But is there any sort of intentional injury in which our existence and the maintenance of our well being be not involved? [129] Is there such a thing as injuring from absolute badness, for example, in the case of cruelty? If a man does not know what pain an act occasions, that act is not one of wickedness. Thus the child is not bad to the animal, not evil. It disturbs and rends it as if it were one of its playthings. Does a man ever fully know how much pain an act may cause another? As far as our nervous system extends, we shield ourselves from pain. ”
Source: Gutenberg

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