People Engaged In Other-Regarding Harm

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An example of someone engaged in other-regarding harm, which happens a lot in a workplace, is when someone who is being ethically-poor "jerk", by causing troubles to other coworkers, such as swearing, yelling at people, sending inappropriate emails, etc. Sometimes these types of people can be customers, clients, and worst of all they can be the boss/owner. In this case, I would agree with Millsian's view, that people must be avoided or stopped, if they engage in other-regarding harm. Mill also articulates, that people are all sovereign and free to do as they like, on a condition that their conduct does no harm to others.

I believe that organizations have to deal with this types of employee(s) who is purposely causing harm to others and do

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