Word: harmfulness
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Finally, it is undeniable that, regardless of any actual physical harm inflicted on these unknowing subjects, the emotional trauma they and their families have suffered since learning of the tests must be enormous. Harvard, MIT and the state of Massachusetts are responsible for that trauma, and for the blatant illegality of their actions...
Victimology has turned out to be the winning tactic of our era. In the Menendez case, the law has been so stretched that an "unreasonable" belief that one is in danger of serious harm -- one no sane person would harbor -- can be sufficient grounds for self-defense. How did we go from a society that brooked no excuses to one that embraces every explanation; from a society that distinguished right from wrong to one that understands all and punishes nothing? In less understanding times, two boys who chose the maid's night off to pump 16 rounds of fire into...
...Governor of Arkansas. On the other hand, Whitewater too is from the past. So even if the worst were proved -- and no one yet knows what that is -- the offense might not warrant impeachment. Even proof of an ethical lapse by then Governor Clinton is not likely to harm him as much as an error committed during his presidency, such as the unproved allegation that he recently dangled a job offer in front of an Arkansas state trooper in return for the trooper's silence about Clinton's alleged sexual shenanigans before he won the White House...
...finding its way to a cell's genome and making itself at home. Retroviruses can be dangerous (HIV is the most notorious), but scientists have ways of altering them so that they don't cause disease. Still, the small risk that retroviruses used in gene therapy could do serious harm to patients makes them less than ideal...
...They don't harm anybody," he said...