Word: harmfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...California Governor Pat Brown, swallowed hard and conceded that the subcommittee "went a little strong-to put it mildly." And President Johnson, himself stung by criticism from the Senate group, did Yorty no harm by chiming in that the Johnson Administration had done more to alleviate urban problems than "any Administration in the history of the country," including "the last Administration," in which Bobby was Attorney General...
Free Everyone. Unlike judges, juries tend to feel that a cured harm is no harm, as when a defendant returns stolen money; they resist penalizing a defendant who corrupts the already corrupted, as in the statutory rape of an unchaste girl. In repeated cases of indecent exposure, a jury tends to convict if the victim is a child, to acquit if the victim is an adult woman...
...conclusion of hostilities. In any case, the humane treatment of war prisoners has long been prescribed by international law and by accepted standards of decency. War, as Montesquieu wrote in 1748, gives neither side any right over prisoners other than that of "disabling them from doing any further harm by securing their persons...
...experiments recently performed on human subjects. Dr. Beecher has no quarrel with the physician who tries a new drug or a new operation for the benefit of a patient; he is concerned about experiments that are designed for the ultimate good of society in general but may well do harm to the subject involved...
...such an expanding scale in the last two decades, the desire for results seems too often to have outweighed the means of arriving at them." As a guideline for researchers, the Journal quotes the great French physiologist-researcher Claude Bernard (1813-78) on human experiments: "Those that can only harm are forbidden." Those that involve no foreseeable harm to the patient are "innocent" and therefore permissible. "Those that may do good are obligatory." The problem in 1966 is to define "those that are innocent...