Whether harm counts as morally wrong depends on context and justification

Evidence

We recognize that in certain times (such as wartime) or in certain places (such as prison death rows) actions that bring harm or even death to other individuals, are regarded by many not only as not evil, but as morally required actions, so we add a reference to “unjustified harmdoing” as the morally wrong sort of harmdoing. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3863

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines moral wrongness as unjustified harmdoing, acknowledging context-dependent exceptions.
• XREF: Echoes the situationist context-dependence debates familiar from Milgram and social psychology; parallels the reader’s prior material on how moral judgment shifts with circumstances. — connects to: Doctrinal disputes matter chiefly for their perceived moral consequences; Conduct judged negligent in one era need not be negligent in another — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 2719; Interference occurs regardless of whether the interfering act is morally justified — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 287 (+2 more)