Our third point was: 'Even if only a tiny fraction of humanity is immoral enough to want to cause large scale harm by weapons of mass destruction in their possession, there are bound to be such people in a huge human population … unless humanity is extensively morally enhanced' (p. 108).
Even if only a tiny fraction of humanity is immoral enough to want to cause large scale harm by weapons of mass destruction in their possession, there are bound to be some such people in a huge human population, as on Earth, unless humanity is extensively morally enhanced.
Even if only a tiny fraction of humanity is immoral enough to want to cause large scale harm by weapons of mass destruction in their possession, there are bound to be some such people in a huge human population, as on Earth, unless humanity is extensively morally enhanced … Essentially this is the claim that it only takes one bad man to spoil things for the rest of us.
A basic test of government is its ability to prevent large-scale harm to its citizens' health and survival.
While the belief that SEP leads to more people beginning to inject drugs has generally been discredited [ 4, 8], it is important to test this belief in middle income countries, where resistance to large-scale harm reduction remains strong.
In countries with large-scale harm reduction programmes (e.g., Australia, Netherlands, some programmes in the United States), sharing of needles and other equipment can be decreased to much lower levels [ 40- 42].
Claiming that there is a danger of large-scale harm from weapons of mass destruction unless humanity is morally enhanced (so that immorality is erased or substantially reduced) implies only that this is necessary to remove the danger, not that this is sufficient.
Critics, including environmentalists, say biofuel production is too costly and on a large scale may do more harm than good if it requires the a lot of farmland, fertiliser and fuel to produce.
In a meeting held in Jaipur with representatives of 19 Muslim organizations on the 19th of January, the day before our opening, while the great majority of the groups were happy to pursue peaceful protests, we organizers were confronted by a few thugs who were hell bent on creating serious trouble and threatened large scale violence and personal harm to Salman and us.
Instead, terrorist attacks in Kuwait have been haphazard and small-scale, demonstrating the intent to harm Westerners, but lacking the capability or the explosives to do large-scale damage.
The inquiry into the BZ-type drugs determined that there was no evidence of large-scale physiological harm, and, given what is known about such drugs, this is not unreasonable.
