Every person is faced with the social and moral dilemmas of how an action that may induce the feeling that self is good in either a cognitive or emotional sense may in fact be harmful to oneself or another person. As well, every nation in the world is faced with the problem of how to reconcile modern conceptions of fairness, justice and equality with the justified harmful actions it must employ to assure the survival and prosperity of its institutions. 

While most people would agree that a morally thoughtful person would not harm others, these same persons would agree that some harmful actions are justified.  What is unsettling about this is that many of these same people would not consider harmful acts justified by principle, law or culture as being true “harms.”  Instead, they would defend these harms as social or moral goods even at a cost of harming themselves (or other people).
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