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Harmless Rapes? A False Problem for the Harm Principle

2010

ENG.: In this article, I try to show that “harmless rape” (i.e., the case of a rape which is not experienced by its victim) poses no real problem for the harm principle. In order to do this, I first give a critical account of the way in which John Gardner and Stephen Shute have faced this very same topic in a pathbreaking essay they wrote about ten years ago. I contend that their argument undergoes some logical and normative flaws. I will then provide a different account of the harm principle, one that, while reflecting more precisely some of the original Millian intuitions, easily explains why socalled harmless rapes should be criminalized. IT: In questo articolo, cerco di spiegare perché …