Randy Cohen says that the "desperately poor, the insane" deserve "more understanding on certain small transgressions" like urinating in subway stations (The Ethicist, Dec. 26).
Additionally, it was not uncommon to get into a physical altercation for small transgressions such as bumping someone in the hall, stepping on someone's shoe, or looking wrongly at another person.
It allows residents — including, presumably, criminals — to know in almost real time about many of the large and small transgressions, crises, emergencies and downright weirdness in their neighborhoods.
In our interconnected and global scientific enterprise, even small transgressions matter.
Note the significant increase in transgressions size in Pc 3 /+ background and the reduction in trx E2 /+ background (a small transgression is indicated with an arrow in F ). Panel G shows the quantification of the transgressions size in the three genotypes, each with respect to its own control.
Stealing intellectual property is no small transgression, but neither is aggressively attempting to humiliate another person in the public eye in a desperate attempt to grab ratings to be the first to break a juicy new story.
"Time and again, we forgive prominent men — politicians, actors, singers, comedians — for their bad behavior, as though we almost expect it of them, while judging and criticizing famous women disproportionately for much smaller transgressions," Marin Cogan wrote in a Vox piece Thursday.
Drug transgressions in one jurisdiction are not violations in another.
Or sort out territorial transgressions in overhead baggage compartments?
"She keeps a running list of my transgressions in her purse".
