In a first-order sense, yes, but in each case that I can think of at the moment, the reason behind the other thing eventually reduces to reducing harm or increasing help.
So If I am in extraordinary pain it would never be helpful/ not-harmful for me to kill myself or for you to assist me?
Also, where does fulfilling your function fit into this? Unless you function is just increasing functionality.
Finally, I guess you're comfortable with the fact that the function of different things is determined in totally different ways? Some things get to determine their own function while other things have people determine it for them? As far as I can tell, people determine the function of tools and this notion that people determine their own function, while true in a sense, is just Aristotelian natural law theory rearing its ugly head. It used to be that we have purposes because God created us and instilled us in one. But if there is no God it seems that the right response is to conclude that purpose, as it applied to humans, was a category error, not that we decide our own purpose.
Reminder:
I haven't gotten around to deconstructing those terms yet, but off the top of my head:
This is beta-version-level thought. It isn't surprising that it still has a few rough spots or places where I haven't noticed that I need to explain one thing for another to make sense.
Also, where does fulfilling your function fit into this? Unless you function is just increasing functionality.
Function as I'm intending to talk about it isn't something you fulfill, it's an ability you have: The ability to achieve the goals you're interested in achieving. ...
Tyler Cowen argues in a TED talk (~15 min) that stories pervade our mental lives. He thinks they are a major source of cognitive biases and, on the margin, we should be more suspicious of them - especially simple stories. Here's an interesting quote about the meta-level: