Sentence examples for mere harm from inspiring English sources

Davies was dead sound in calling for an end to drug prohibition in the name of mere "harm reduction".

Hasty resentment is an immediate response to "mere harm without appearance of wrong or injustice," (Sermon VIII, §7).

At the same time, though, the mere harming of others is not where the right ends.

Whereas Mill appears to reject the regulation of mere offense, the harm principle appears to be the one justification he recognizes for restricting liberty.

Nor would these scholars allow refusals of wedding-related services on religious grounds when same-sex couples might suffer "substantial hardship," though not "mere inconvenience or symbolic harm," because similar services or accommodations were unavailable from others.

Basing its estimates on much of the same data Mr. Feinberg used, the company concluded that there was "no credible support for adopting an artificially high future loss factor based purely on the inherent degree of uncertainty in predicting the future and on the mere possibility that future harm might occur".

Later, Mill distinguishes between genuine harm and mere offense.

First, recall that Mill distinguishes between harm and mere offense.

Some other-regarding conduct causes mere offense, not genuine harm (IV 3; IV 12).

The Canadian Supreme Court's opinion, written by Justice John Sopinka, said that "our understanding of the harms caused by these materials has developed considerably" in recent years, and declared that there was now another, more compelling reason to regulate obscenity than mere public prudishness: pornography harms women.

From a grievance, or the desire to do harm, or the mere wish to watch a spectacular event, one of them would probably have set it aflame, and no one would do very much to help put it out.