Harm Principle Definition

The Harm Principle requires less from us because it does not ask us to question the value we put on different aspects of life like the Best Interest Standard. There are eight conditions that have to be meet in order for the harm principle to justify state intervention, these are typically objective. The Best Interest Standard makes it difficult to define what’s in the “best interest of the child, it also questions whether greater value should be based on the servile rate of the child or the side effects, discomforts and disruptions that a child might go through. The fact that most of BIS standards are subjective makes it very difficult to determine what is best in a court of law.

A Kantian would oppose the birth of savior siblings because