Someone who is trying to be sober is often trying to work out deeper emotional issues and is attempting to undue years of habitual behavior.
But it's a mere fortuity that my negligent act caused the harm in question; the harm is not anticipated from the undue risk that makes my behavior negligent.
On the other hand, these same technologies, if misused or inadequately implemented, risk creating unparalleled forms of intrusion into people's private sphere, potentially causing physical or psychological harm, or allowing undue influence on people's behavior.
The list of behaviors that cause undue harm to others is long.
Don't reward your child's behavior by giving it undue attention.
This pattern of health-seeking behavior typically results in an undue human cost and financial burden on existing health systems [ 3, 4], underscoring the need for noncommunicable disease (NCD) data to advise health interventions targeting the urban poor.
Making your child aware of her strengths, not drawing undue attention to her weaknesses, having high expectations for behavior, effort, and achievment are other best parenting behaviors or practices.
In other contexts, interpreting people's behavior as expected-utility maximizing requires undue violence to the principle of parsimony in theory construction.
Shortly after Shakeem's death, the child welfare agency concluded that Ms. Worrell had been negligent, that her behavior had placed Shakeem "at unnecessary and undue risk of serious harm".
In my next post, I will explore how culturally sensitive bereavement support can help avoid complicated grief, which can lead to undue or unmanageable guilt, desperation, depression, isolation and searching behaviors.
This understanding of human action has often been misappropriated by interpreters who have assumed that when Aquinas says that acts are wrongful by reason of their "undue matter" (indebita materia), he refers to an item of behavior specifiable by its physical characteristics and causal structure.
