Where wicked and manipulative people choose to harm children, it is always going to be impossible for public authorities fully to guarantee zero risk.
Still, when pushed to the brink, most petitioners will choose to harm just themselves, sometimes by drinking pesticide, attempting self-immolation or jumping to their death.
For they like to think they could have designed a better world in which everyone has complete freedom to act, but remarkably no-one would freely choose to harm another.
The fact that these children choose to harm themselves rather than others is a sign that they feel plenty of shame about their fears already, for which they blame themselves.
I study decision-making in violent contexts, and I was struck by Paul Bloom's assertion that perpetrators of violence don't dehumanize their victims but, rather, see them as humans and intentionally choose to harm them as such (Books, November 27th).
"Every time he chooses to harm a soldier, he harms everything it means to be an officer," DiMuro said.
Rather than setting women up to blame themselves for a sexual assault, we need to let women know that as a society we will blame the men that chose to harm them.
That's not going to sit well with his constituents, who Royce chose to harm with his vote: Last year 66.3% of them took the mortgage interest deduction, and 74.7% took the property tax deduction – both of which are eviscerated by the GOP tax bill.
When hurricanes come to Louisiana, observers sometimes criticize citizens there for choosing to live in harm's way.
You never chose to be harmed.
I would hope that any soldier – any human being, really – would choose not to harm a civilian, even if it meant their mission would be in danger.
