I see that Pope Francis has recently been in the news, and that he's made the important distinction between sin and crime. That is, he claims that there are acts that are immoral, but which the state should not punish.

I'm familiar with the #liberal concept of the "harm principle", but I've never really found it satisfying. What other philosophical approaches are there for deciding when a sin should not be a crime?

#JSMill #HarmPrinciple #crime #ethics
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