Word: harmfulness
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...obtuse rhetoric about adolescent moodiness was insulting to a large portion of today's youth, myself included. Many American teenagers are well-informed, intelligent citizens, and it's inappropriate to describe us as immoderate and out of control. Characterizing teen behavior as "exasperating" simply reflects stale stereotypes that do harm to the reputation of an entire age group. It is inadequate to dismiss adolescent angst as the result of structural changes in the brain. Jim Fields Mountain View...
...look back on the '60s and think there was more good than harm, you're probably a Democrat. If you think there was more harm than good, you're probably a Republican." BILL CLINTON, former President, kicking off a book tour for his new autobiography, My Life...
...remarkable creativity of hatred, and soon enough people would be marrying children or their pets. (Clearly enfranchising an arbitrarily deprived subset of adult citizens is but a step away from enfranchising their infants or their dogs.) Or perhaps the problem was that gay marriage would, by its very existence, harm already existing heterosexual unions—so fragile an institution, apparently, is straight marriage that the presence of any other sort of marriage might nullify it entirely. What is most surprising about the many false arguments marshaled by those who oppose same-sex marriage is not how absurd they...
...look back on the '60s and think there was more good than harm, you're probably a Democrat. If you think there was more harm than good, you're probably a Republican." BILL CLINTON, former U.S. President, noting the difference between American political parties, while kicking off a book tour for his new autobiography, My Life...
...which Beall answers: "Self-control has to come into play at some point. Everyone wants and needs a different amount of food." He argues that people who eat out only once a month may want to splurge and eat more than usual and that there's no harm in that...