Word: harmfulness
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...There’s a chance that the reparations movement will do more harm than good, because the central change is educating the public about the here-and-now effects of slavery and Jim Crow,” said Edley, who advised former President Bill Clinton on race matters. “We must correct the widespread view that, because landmark court decisions and legislation occurred 40 to 50 years ago, the legacy of color caste is only about history...
...disproportionate, but predetermined, military response. As Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz has proposed, the Israeli Defense Forces should release a list of targets that will be destroyed in response to each terrorist attack. That way Palestinian terrorists will know exactly who among their own people they harm when they commit murder so they can properly weigh their own perceived costs and benefits...
Alternatively, the family of a suicide bomber could be targeted for deportation and property destruction. Suicide bombers can’t be deterred by threat of bodily harm, but they might be by consequences to their relatives...
...That's how I got my identity. That's how I got my fulfillment. I was a good priest who did amazing things, but I didn't have a personal life. Among my many priestly activities, I worked closely with children. My reaching out to them was not to harm them. I was reaching out for affection, for intimacy, reaching out to belong, to have somebody who would be my friend, in the sense of what I didn't have. I was their age, on one level. The physical contact, the touch, was not in the strictest sense sexual...
...given up trying to think of a way to go back and make it all right. There have been a few of these young people that I've talked to because they have sought me out, and there has been a healing. But I can't change the harm I did. I can't go back and make it right. I spent many, many days and hours trying to figure out how I could do that--wishing it away, praying it away. It doesn't go away. And that's a tremendous pain and tremendous injury done. And I understand...