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Originally Posted by photon
Morally blameworthy for what? What harm has there been? There's some crimes that cause harm even if the perpetrator hasn't been caught, but peeping isn't one of them.
But I can see what you mean in that those kinds of things being public is a privacy issue, but as I said that's a general harm from the media making it into the public in general, the harm doesn't change because person x does or does not view the video. And like I asked before, if there was a magic button to be pressed that could remove all of a certain image or video from existence, is that something that should be used?
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Again, this sort of Millsian individualistic conception of "harm" seems too limited to me. What about harm to society and social life?
In any event, the Supreme Court of Canada has repeatedly rejected restriction of Parliament's criminal law making power by Mills' harm principle.