That we should build a machine as smart as a person is a really damaging idea.
This is already a very damaging idea that exists in conventional wisdom.
But in any case, it's an incredibly damaging idea to have broadcast on national television – and totally bizarre that people inside the government would actually boast of such duplicitous tactics to journalists at a time when the government is really on the ropes politically.
We have accepted the damaging idea that a person who wants an abortion must grovel before the consciences of others.
In other words, while stopping short of selling MMS (likely for legal reasons), Humble and Rivera instead advocate it as a lifestyle, thereby promoting the damaging idea that the complex neurological condition known as autism is essentially a gut problem that you can somehow power-wash out of your body by pouring industrial bleach into both ends.
We have already brought a new openness to all areas of government, radically challenging the damaging idea that public data is owned by the state, not the citizen.
God bless you, baby!" and then get angry and berate women who don't show gratitude -- I've had "You could say thank you!" spat at me more than once -- they are perpetuating the damaging idea that women should be grateful to be found attractive by a man -- no matter who that man is.
In the wake of George Bush's re-election, "there is now not the slightest chance that Mr Blair will be able to cast off the damaging idea that he is Mr Bush's poodle," it said.
The suggestion that straight men should "fear" having to share sporting change rooms or military quarters with gay men promotes the damaging idea that gay men are essentially predatory, completely incapable of containing their own desires.
In a post published on The Wireless, "On A Plate: A Short Story About Privilege" by Toby Morris challenges many of these damaging ideas by exemplifying how a person born into poverty faces setbacks at various stages of their life their well-off peers don't need to overcome.
