The assessment considers the following questions: (1)
What social harms are we trying to remedy through the legislation?
Not exact matches
With the mandate to experiment and be bold along with the general idea that philanthropists work with the most vulnerable,
what responsibility do we have to the client if / when our
social experiments fail, perhaps another way to ask is — Is it possible to «do no
harm» when engaging in philanthropy?]
What can be said with certainty is that the fear of intermarriage, erected as a barrier to
social fellowship, does
harm and thwarts constructive effort far in excess of the actual justification of such a fear.
What is wrong is when someone implies or even straight out says like some on
social media say, that I am
harming my child for keeping that last fraying thread of my sanity.
Before school starts, talk to your kids about
what bullying is using language they can understand: someone with more
social or physical power purposefully trying to cause distress or
harm to another person in physical, psychological, or
social ways, often repeating it over time even though the victim wants it to stop.
When the
social workers heard
what the mother intended to name the twins, they intervened and tried to stop her, on the grounds that naming a little girl «Cyanide» would cause her emotional
harm.
Parents also wonder if the practice will
harm their child's
social skills in the long run, ingraining a «
what's in it for me» kind of attitude... [Read more...]
However, he suggested that we tend to be far better parents than citizens to such an extent that
what we do for our children goes beyond legitimate partiality to
harm the rest of society by keeping opportunity in the family and preventing
social mobility.
As noted in last week's post, if a writer takes to
social media to do a hatchet job on an agent or editor and doesn't back up
what they are saying, well, that author comes across as a prima donna and only does himself
harm.
There is a major fight heating up at the State and Federal level on how we set
what the government calls the
Social Cost of Carbon, a metric calculated by the Government on the
harm carbon (C02) does the economy, to our health and to the planet.
As Dietz (2013:42) writes «
Social scientific expertise can be useful in describing the value positions that exist around an issue and how prevalent they are... But scientific expertise does not have any special privilege in determining
what values should be favored and
what values should be
harmed when a decision is made.»