It's completely acceptable to make jabs at a rival, but it's taboo to make false, harmful statements about your competitors.
Bear no responsibility for making harmful statements or allowing editorials by vitriolic essentialists.
First, we observe and formulate harmful ordering of statements in transaction code and propose to eliminate harmful ordering by rearranging statements in decreasing order of the degree of contention.
"It never occurred to me," Wodehouse reflected, "that there could be anything harmful about such statements as that … the commandant at Huy Citadel had short legs and did not like walking uphill, that men who had no tobacco smoked tea, and that there was an unpleasant smell in my cell at Loos prison".
Thus, clinicians should take into account information from patients that might suggest prior expressed or potential harmful or hurtful statements from members of their social networks.
"Military-led humanitarian and development activities are driven by donors' political interests and short-term security objectives and are often ineffective, wasteful and potentially harmful to Afghans," a statement by Oxfam said.
When "Beloved" failed to be nominated for a National Book Award (Pete Dexter's "Paris Trout" won that year), forty-eight prominent black intellectuals and writers, including Maya Angelou, Lucille Clifton, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alice Walker, and Quincy Troupe, protested "against such oversight and harmful whimsy" in a statement that was printed in the Times Book Review.
Because the FDA permits the use of carcinogenic and other harmful chemicals, Estee Lauder's statement is not a commitment to selling cosmetics free of formaldehyde, parabens, and other harmful chemicals.
But no matter what Levy thinks of the joke, the point that he makes about the reaction to Maher's tweet -- that equating a comedian's jokes with a serious statement is harmful and dishonest to the very foundation of comedy -- is an opinion worth noting.
2. Some people view such statements as "harmful"; those people may well include bar authorities.
