And I fully agree with you. ||And I'm the author of the text.||
On the essay I needed a simple way to explain a "baseline", something that can't go below that. And I tried to move the reader to get that this isn't a perfect solution, but a baseline. And I fully agree with you. Without a good definition of the kind of harm, measure of the harm (after all, harm is a simple term, but it does have weight), it's hard to properly go there.
But my point was, baseline, we can't go below this one. Even if a community considers "bad taste joke" as "no harm" while other community considers the other way around, it's still possible for both communities to "exist", wouldn't co-exist, but would exist.
And since both don't want to harm the other they would discuss up to some agreement on the kind and level of harm.
I understand you and to a certain degree I agree with you on the "no single person as ownership", but when we need to make decision, it's often a single person. On the federated it's better, but my dream still runs on the fully cooperative communities. Which is a far dream in the current world stage.
Also,
People within the community have to accept to a certain degree, that people don’t think exactly the same as them on everything.
This is pure poetry. I love it.
Ps.: Thanks for the reading and bringing the topic. And I think I should have done a better job on the definition of the harm too. A lesson learned.