"We accepted that we had done something that was injurious to our communities," says Kroll, with some understatement (both were expelled and ostracised by their orders).
Forcing debtors to rot, Defoe not disinterestedly pointed out, was injurious to both parties, since "after a debtor was confined in prison both he and the creditor lost through his prolonged distress".
But Königsberg's harsh climate was injurious to his wife's health, and in 1855 he became professor of anatomy and physiology at the University of Bonn, moving in 1858 to Heidelberg.
In Chinese culture, going back to Confucius, there has been a tradition of individual scholars and intellectuals denouncing rulers for wrongdoing that was bringing disharmony to society, and particularly if that wrongdoing was injurious to innocence.
Although this action was injurious to Mepkin's bottom line in the short run, in the long run it was beneficial.
In 1911, the US government sued the Coca-Cola Company, on the basis that the caffeine in its drink was "injurious to health", but Coca-Cola prevailed in the courts.
