I have argued for many years that human communication generates harm that is largely emotional and immaterial and that civil legal remedies and criminal sanctions should be proportionately restorative and avoid the temptation for popular penalism.
E. andrei earthworms act as indicators for a soil to support disposal of swine manure without generating harm to agriculture and ecosystems.
Nursing care services are provided to patients in an environment with complex interactions that can generate harm, errors and unintended outcomes.
Vasoactive medications, for example, are only of use in the septic patient with refractory hypotension, and mechanical ventilation does not help the patient without respiratory insufficiency; indeed, intervention in the absence of a clearly established need may generate harm.
In these trials, screening yielded no benefit but generated considerable harm.
As noted, the benefits of the intervention appear to be substantial and the intervention generates no harms, other than cost of testing cigarettes to ensure compliance.
As they are often besieged from within and without, such governments use their monopoly of "legitimate" violence to suppress the trade, failing to produce the desired effect while generating multiple harms.
Still, this story has turned into an iconic illustration of the harms generated by massive data collection.
Population-level investigations may explore the potential added benefits and the possible risks of unintended harms generated by delivering PtDAs on the Internet, as well as the direct and indirect costs of developing, updating, and maintaining Internet-delivered PtDAs, compared to using other media [ 20, 61].
Surveys that perpetuate the myth that cybercrime makes for easy money are harmful because they encourage hopeful, if misinformed, new entrants, who generate more harm for users than profit for themselves.
"The attempt to prohibit people from using these substances generates ancillary harm.
