Do as you will and harm none along the way

I have been discussing a phrase that I have seen used here at the Temple in different threads and was curious as to how other people interpreted this phrase for themselves.
Personally I don't like the phrase as I see it as a way to justify doing certain actions and also a cop out of taking responsibility.
But I know that my opinion is coloured by experience and other things.
So I wonder if you could give me another viewpoint on it so that I could understand it a little better.
Thank you in advance for any answers, anything you have to say would be useful in helping me.
The phrase is 'Do as you will and harm none along the way.'

I'm afraid that I will be of no help. Lol My opinion of the phrase is the same. It exists to justify or excuse behaviours that one should have no part of.

This reminds me of the phrase from Crowley 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.' I believe Crowley's phrase was about following one's path, their 'will', as opposed to actually meaning that they go and do what the hell they wanted. The 'will' being separate from their egotistic self.

With the phrase you've posted above, I don't really disagree with it. I don't know the context from where it comes in order to give a proper evaluation, however do we not already 'do as we will'? I live as I like, and I don't harm anybody along the way if I can help it.. sometimes 'anybody' is also myself.

If I am not mistaken, this is a Wiccan statement.

I do not believe it is a cop-out for bad behavior. But, instead a willingness to allow everyone to live their own lives as they see fit as long as it falls within the confines of not hurting another person. Who are we to judge another person's actions if the action has no direct impact on an external party's ability to pursue their own happiness?

Too often people apply personal morality to the larger whole, this in and of its self is immoral. Live and let live is another version of the same truth. The statement that this belief system allows for bad behavior is only true within the confines of one's own morality, not the actor's. Therefore this is not bad behavior in the actor's eyes; so long as the behavior does not impact another without consent, of course.