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harming myself overall.
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So, perhaps the deontological prohibition against harm
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is really a prohibition against harming people overall.
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Look, you've got some sort of a disease in your--
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infection in your leg that has now spread
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and it's going to kill you unless we amputate your leg.
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So, you go into surgery and the surgeon chops off your leg.
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Has he done something immoral?
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It doesn't seem as though he has.
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But after all, he chopped off your leg!
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He harmed you!
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You used to have a leg and now you don't have one.