Sentence examples for certain harms from inspiring English sources

What is in doubt need not be the moral importance of, for example, preventing certain harms, but rather the means to achieve this end.

Though he agrees with Epicurus that the gods, who should be our ethical role models, are untouched by anger (Piet. 1147 ff. Obbink), it is, according to Philodemus, natural for us human beings to feel anger and desire revenge at certain harms or slights.

Similarly, the idea of certain harms to Cecelia's welfare will make me feel terrible (the idea of her being bitten by a dog, say) while others will make me feel less terrible (the idea of her getting chicken pox, say), even while my estimation of the harm to her welfare might make the two scenarios quite similar.

Among those who argue most passionately for nuclear power these days are some environmentalists, who see the uncertain threat that it presents as preferable to the certain harm of climate change.

That an agent intended to bring about a certain harm does not explain why the action was impermissible, but it can explain what is morally faulty about the agent's reasoning in pursuing that line of action.

Double effect might also be part of a secular and non-absolutist view according to which a justification adequate for causing a certain harm as a side effect might not be adequate for causing that harm as a means to the same good end under the same circumstances.

And in the GOP budget authored by Ryan, low-income families face certain harm; millionaires are given massive tax breaks.

Grunis framed his remarks around fears of infiltration by Palestinian militants, saying: "The (law's) blow, as presented, to family life must be viewed against the certain harm, given past experience, to the lives and bodies of Israelis".