ABSTRACT
BENEFITING AND HARMING apply in a general way to a wide and colorful range of human interaction. Praising, helping, teaching, protecting and encouraging, for example, are considered actions generally benefiting a person unless special circumstances are taken into account. Usually for instance, helping is considered as a worthwhile and benefiting action, though if the one who is helped needs to learn through his own efforts, the help may be rejected as harmful. More typical instances of harming are seen in insulting; hindering, hurting, condemning, and breaking a promise.
