Our beneficial and harmful tendencies are those such as wisdom, tolerance, compassion etc and harmful - greed, hatred and ignorance - that drive people all do the things they do.
As everyone has the beneficial and harmful tendencies hardwired, it's a personal choice to be more tolerant of everyone's right to a belief or none.
Perhaps the most important points are simply that people are naturally hardwired with both beneficial and harmful tendencies and that we are all hardwired to be self centred.
The harmful mental tendencies also include holding what are often referred to as "wrong views" -- which, in the Buddhist tradition, can encompass a number of interpretations.
"When after a great deal of research and testing, a chemical is found to be harmful, then the tendency is to replace it with as similar a chemical as possible.
"Today, there is an insufficient link between management pay and performance and this encourages harmful short-term tendencies," said the commission, announcing the new initiative.
The Committee on Statistical Descriptors of the International Union of Crystallography was well aware of this fact when it stated that "Thoughtless use of established procedures in widely distributed software may be as harmful as the natural tendency of most people to prefer results in agreement with preconceived ideas".
To address this, the γ-retroviral vectors are being increasingly replaced by self-inactivating (SIN) retroviral vectors, which in pre-clinical studies have shown similar efficacy in terms of sustainable transgene expression, but reduced tendency for harmful mutagenesis (Seymour and Thrasher, 2012).
At that point, estrogen may be harmful, because it increases the tendency to clot, raising the risk of a heart attack.
Most of the disinfectants are strong oxidants and therefore during their course of oxidation there is a tendency to occur harmful byproducts [7] which could damage healthy cells.
The association said some research suggested that efforts to produce change could be harmful, inducing depression and suicidal tendencies.
