Word: harmfulness
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What seems to have made that era so comfortable for vice, apart from the occasional luxury, was the old double standard, the neat if uncharitable belief that some women were just bad, and no real harm in that. But high-minded ministers and pious women soon assaulted this view with the fierce preachment that everyone must be good. By the early 1920s, after two generations of struggle, the reformers had won the official prohibition of commercial sex (and liquor as well...
...Tito, urged a diminution of centralized rule and greater personal freedoms as long ago as the 1950s. For his pains, Djilas spent nine years in Tito's prisons. Now he is worried that a 23-man presidency might go too far toward de-centralization and do more harm than good. "A 'collective presidency' instead of a president," he wrote last fall, "will aggravate rather than lessen the inefficiency of the administration and the bickering of the already dissociated chiefs." Still, from his booklined study on a shaded Belgrade street, he pronounces himself pleased with the divorce...
...stumps of the pulmonary veins attached to the left auricle and sewed up the auricle. He could have taken these out, but, Barnard explained later, "this way, we don't have to do all of that dissection. They're not functioning, but there's no harm in leaving them there...
...Loibls' experiment is designed to prove that DDT, which they claim is the most maligned of pesticides, is "harmless." They believe that the environment is better served with spraying. On the surface, their consumption of DDT appears to have caused them no harm. Blood tests and urinalysis conducted by Government physicians, says Loibl, "showed nothing out of the ordinary." But while the Loibls seem safe enough now, they could become ill in the future. More important, even if DDT is not immediately harmful to man, it is destructive to many beneficial insects and to some fish and birds...
...victim guilty?" Seldom, very seldom. When society does not have an answer as to why criminals are criminals, it tries to make the victim worthy of his injury or harm. We must do this to preserve our concept of the "just world," where evil is returned for evil and good for good...