Word: harmfulness
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...feel a man should be permitted to kill himself because a voice which he hears in his head one week tells him this is his duty. I would not want for a friend the supposedly idealistic and well intentioned men who would give me the freedom to harm myself when I was not of sound mind. A law which would permit this must be considered equally uncaring and in essence sadistic...
...able to escape confinement in the mental institutions of this state. The statute provides for the involuntary commitment of any person ". . . subject to a disease, psychosis, psychoneurosis or character disorder which renders him so deficient in judgment or emotional control that he is in danger of causing physical harm to himself or to others, . . . or is likely to conduct himself in a manner which clearly violates the established laws, ordinances, conventions, or morals of the community." (Emphasis supplied...
State legislatures have failed to make policy decisions specifying who shall be detained and why. Nor have they specified the necessary degree of likelihood for a person to commit a harm. In other words, it doesn't matter whether a person might commit a harm, is likely to commit a harm, or is more than likely to commit a harm. In practice, all a psychiatrist must say is that a person is "likely to be dangerous to himself or to others" to effect his incarceration...
...issue of who the ROTC department is responsible to, the Dean or the Pentagon, unless you are asserting that non answerability means non-cooperation, this becomes a meaningless technicality. As it is admitted in the article of the 15th that there has been a great deal of cooperation, the harm would seem to be more to your aesthetic sense of organization than to the integrity of the University...
...referring again to the article of the 15th, we see that the security clearance required for the two courses is "routine" and therefore nonimal rather than substantive. As yet, no harm harm has been shown as being attributable to it and thus the objection must be classed as a technicality...