Word: deterent
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Suicide, the unpunishable crime, has always posed a challenge to societies that want to deter it. Under English common law, suicide was a felony punishable by burying the body by a public highway with a stake driven through the heart, to keep the spirit from wandering. It is no longer a crime in the U.S., but assisting in one is illegal in more than 20 states. No one knows how often doctors write the prescription and whisper the recipe for a deadly overdose; but one informal survey of internists last year found that one in five say they have helped...
...change Hollywood. It would be a kind of self-censorship--the only kind of censorship that should be allowed. The government should never involve itself in outlawing movies, no matter how offensive; that would be worse than the problem itself. But the evils of government censorship should not deter citizens from speaking out against what they feel is hurting society...
...role in determining foreign policy initiatives in the post-cold war era. But the mere existence of moral issues are not enough to always justify military intervention. Moral wrongs and human rights abuses exist all over the globe. The cost (such as a nuclear war) should at times deter us from intervening, even when the offenses are egregious (as in Joseph Stalin's murder of some 20 million Ukranians as the result of his collectivization plan). In this case, we judge the moral wrongs in Serbia to outweigh the cost of righting them...
Schmertzler said the Radcliffe alumni office was not willing to include the report in their reunion packets because it might deter graduates from coming to the reunion and elicit complaints. Schmertzler said the committee distributed the reports...
...abiding citizens use firearms to stop or deter between 300,000 and one million violent crimes every year (depends on whose statistics one believes). NCS figures (U.S. Department of Justice) show that law-abiding citizens who resist attack using a firearm have a lower chance of being injured and a greater chance of preventing completion of the crime than those who don't resist at all or those who resist with all other weapons (knives, fists, Mace, umbrellas...