Word: harmfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moral. Now, Simons believes, a consensus is developing outside the church that permits abortions when a mother's life is in danger, birth control and even sterilization for parents whose family welfare would be threatened by another child, and suicide "where it is foreseen that otherwise great harm will be caused...
...temperatures would run high even if the spotlight weren't on. There is a lot of tradition at the Med School, and the report implies that a good deal of it does more harm than good. The report strikes hard at a once highly respected tradition -- departmental autonomy...
...Practical Church Dictionary says: "Bishops are the chief defenders of the Faith and ambassadors for Christ." As a bishop, Pike does not appear to have qualified on either count. One wonders whether in his attempt to speak to the modern nonbeliever Pike has not done much more harm than good to the branch of the Church of God he elected to serve. Damn James Pike then, and doubly damn those of his peers who do not publicly oppose his heresies...
Although he is equally opposed to the use of both the psychedelics and marijuana, Farnsworth differentiated between the dangers posed by the two. Marijuana, unlike LSD, is not intrinsically harmful, he noted, "but its danger lies in the peer group pressure to go on to other things. The harm is not to the brain, but to the individual...
There is a need for an active responsive citizenry to voice its feeling through elected representatives, he said. The increasing strength of the executive branch of the government has made this especially important now. Passivity can do a great deal of harm, he added...