Word: harmfulness
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...represent everything from rampant consumerism to the spread of communism. We live in an age when it's very easy to be afraid of everything that's going on in the world. There are these large groups of faceless people somewhere in the world, who mean to do us harm, and cannot be reasoned with. Zombies are sort of familiar territory...
...asking anyone to love Russia, but we will not allow anyone to cause harm to Russia and we will get respect - for the citizens of Russia and for our whole country, but not with force but by our own behavior and successes." - a contrasting comment from his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos (Wall Street Journal...
...watch, for example, it would be a second-class relic. (Had Jesus given it to him, it would be a first.) A third-class relic is anything - anything at all - that has touched a first-class relic." As Manseau is quick to point out, such categorization often did more harm than good: "Seen charitably, this means that anyone could aspire to possess one. Seen cynically - and no less historically - the three-classes scheme meant that counterfeiting of the second and third class could be easily performed." (See pictures of spiritual healing around the world...
Naturally, this proposal would not meet with universal approval, especially since students are not the only customers to whom these restaurants cater. Restaurateurs argue that such a policy would be unfair and harm the local economy by pushing out profitable business. Lawmakers, however, must adopt a longer-term view. In 2000, the cost of treating diseases resulting from obesity—measured in insurance costs, Medicare, and Medicaid—came to the grand sum of $117 billion. These are costs that come back to affect all Americans in the form of rising insurance premiums and a struggling health-care...
...That is not to say that this valorization is an inherently bad, or even flawed, component of contemporary feminist thought. Women should have the right to choose the manner in which they express their sexuality, regardless of the content of their choice (unless, of course, it results in foreseeable harm to others). Likewise, they should also have the right to judge which representations enlighten and which offend their sensibilities...