Word: harmfulness
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...category of people, whether by description or depiction, those people can become regarded as less than human. In studies, the objects of such discrimination tend to be viewed as less important as individuals and less deserving of a place in our society. What does it matter if hurt or harm comes to such people, such thinking goes; they're not as important as the rest of us, and consequently less worthy of our regard and concern. This erosion of mutual respect is just that: a mutual loss...
Where's the Harm...
...prodding, to lift many sanctions against North Korea, the U.S. perspective on the new d?tente will be shaped later this month when it resumes direct talks with North Korea over missiles. Long-term peace on the peninsula would certainly allow the U.S. to remove 37,000 troops from harm's way along the world's most potentially volatile border. But that would also lose Washington a key foothold in any future conflict scenario in the region against either China or Russia...
...early spring day in 1997, Raman was a novice coxswain guiding a boat full of freshman lightweight rowers through the Charles River. As they headed towards the path of an oncoming sailboat, he thought his boat could continue full-speed ahead and pass without harm...
Finally, Harvard was one of many defendants in a multi-billion dollar suit by a woman who claimed to have been "illegally implanted" by the federal government with a devise known as a "CATO," that caused great harm. Other defendants in the suit included former President George Bush, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and the Pentagon...