 Another important debate concerns the “harm principle” (see Mill 1859: ch. 1). It is often said that only those moral wrongs that cause harm can properly serve as the basis for punishment. But the harm principle, on any of a number of interpretations, is too restrictive to be consistent with retributive justice, which, unlike the harm principle, calls for giving the wrongdoer his just deserts even if no other good (such as the prevention of harm) should follow (Tomlin 2014a). (For a short survey of variations on the harm principle and their problems, see Tadros 2016: 102–107.)