Word: harmfulness
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Moreover, the harm to students is grossly exaggerated. To begin with, present ROTC students would no doubt be grandfathered out of any new policy (as they were in 1969). Some then argue that would be Harvard students would be forced to go elsewhere without ROTC...
...Farrakhan: To me, it is highly improper in that you make a mockery over people. So why should we mock them? Why should we goad them into a behavior that is so easy for them to do harm to black people? And that's why I rebuked...
There's a good reason why the drinking age is set above the age at which one can vote: People are generally more responsible at age 21 than age 18. It's unlikely that a single vote will inflict severe harm on the voter or anyone else, but the potential hazards to an underage drinker and the members of the surrounding community are well documented. And if the legal drinking age ever reached 18, it could very well drop even lower soon after...
Toleration implies self-restraint in the presence of someone you find hard to tolerate--i.e. someone you think deserves harm, hurt, damnation, etc. To the shock of the politically correct, this means that most racists, anti-Semites, and homophobes--the civil, law-abiding ones--are perfectly tolerant people...
...Mark Almond, a fellow of the London-based Institute for European Defense and Strategic Studies, believes humanitarian aid in Bosnia has done more harm than good: Serbs and Croats at checkpoints have exacted tolls in hard currency, siphoned food and medicine from the relief trucks and then used the cash and supplies to sustain the fighting. Roads improved by the U.N. to facilitate access for aid convoys have made it easier for all three factions to move troops and guns. The 300,000 survivors of the two-year-long siege of Sarajevo refer to themselves bitterly as "the well...