That's a good, simpler way of putting it: summing over all harms, including future ones.
For single act harms, future terms don't exist.
And for recursive, add in a probability weighting, if one wants to be pedantic about modeling.
For single act harms, future terms don't exist.
And for recursive, add in a probability weighting, if one wants to be pedantic about modeling.
Harmful things can be analyzed; the risks can be quantified and weighed up against the benefits; the downside can be limited.
Recursively harmful things - which not only cause harm but precipitate further rounds of harm - are harder to analyze and have potentially infinite downside.