Sentence examples for unjustified harm from inspiring English sources

In this way ignorance can be a legitimate excuse for causing unjustified harm.

However, since Aristotle, theorists have recognized that ignorance is only a legitimate excuse for causing unjustified harm when we are not responsible for our ignorance, i.e., when the ignorance is non-culpable (Nichomachean Ethics, Bk III).

Ethics committees are designed to include members with different fields of expertise, in order to carry out both the scientific and the ethical review; a research protocol with poor scientific basis is a waste of resources and might involve unjustified harm to the studied population, and thus is as ethically unacceptable as a study whose protocol shows an unbalanced risk benefit ratio.

To reiterate from my earlier commentary (The New TMZ), ethicist Michael Josephson points out that "The powers of the press should be used responsibly to advance public interest without causing unjustified harm.... it should inform, clarify and explain about matters of social consequence without pandering unduly to public dispositions to be entertained and titillated".

Violence usually has a normative value and is defined as something like "an unjustified injury or harm".

Surely causing what the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change calls "unprecedented changes throughout the climate system" creates a substantial and unjustified risk of harm to human beings.

In 1990 when Harvard divested from the tobacco industry, Derek Bok, then president of the University, said in his letter that Harvard's decision to divest "was motivated by a desire not to be associated as a shareholder with companies engaged in significant sales of products that create a substantial and unjustified risk of harm to other human beings".

The course description promised that the seminar would "wrestle with some of the most profound responses to the problem of evil -- unjustified suffering and undeserved harm -- through the distinctive voices of philosophers, poets and especially dramatic artists".

Professor Adam Balen, of the British Fertility Society, said: "Excuses for not complying with NICE guidelines generally state that infertility is not a life-threatening condition, but this is unjustified: infertility causes psychological harm for many of the one-in-six couples it affects, and is recognised as a medical condition by the World Health Organisation.

A virtue-theoretic approach, by contrast, might defend (P2) by claiming not that a particular unjustified belief causes moral harm, but rather that regularly ignoring our epistemic obligations is a bad intellectual habit, and that having a bad intellectual character is a way of having a bad moral character (Zagzebski 1996; Roberts and Wood 2007).

His attorney demanded that Modern Hiker take down an article about him, saying it made Saraiva the target of "oppressive and unjustified messages that seriously harm his professional and private life".