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| | Erowid Psychoactive Vaults : Article #3 |
 | | As a result, although the criminal law permits Canadians to close the garage door and fill their lungs with carbon monoxide for the purpose of inducing death, they may not fill those very same lungs with marijuana smoke for the purpose of inducing pleasure. |
 | | If the definition of harm is expanded beyond this, however, then drug users, pornographers, homosexuals or others who reside on someone or others list of undesirables could be hit with violations of the criminal law without such persecution seeming to be in any way illiberal. |
 | | In fact, in a growing number of universities, law faculties, courts, and ministries, the liberal principle is being turned entirely on its head simply by redefining "harm." Feelings of humiliation or the creation of a "hostile environment" are deemed to be harms on a moral par with physical force. |
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