Sentences with phrase «society against harm»

If the law relating to weapons is a proper way of protecting society against harm, what is wrong with using the criminal law in a way which aims to prevent the misery caused by irresponsible drivers who are involved in preventable crashes?

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But then again, our society is still crawling slowly towards truly embracing the notion, enunciated most forcefully by John Stuart Mill, that we shouldn't have rules against behaviour that doesn't harm anyone, and that, hence, what goes on between consenting adults behind closed doors is nobody else's business.
But you can always make a case that every person has the potential to make society better or more advanced and bringing harm to another human being should be against the law.
People who want to harm others to benefit themselves we call sociopaths, and as a society pass laws against such action.
This is a policy which will cause more harm than good and goes against the very principles of community support which drive Welsh society.
They write, «The need to manage our patients» pain appropriately should be safely balanced against the potential harm of drug diversion to both the individual and society at large.»
One way of achieving this might be to empower women to confront the state committing such human rights violations against them, through international and domestic forums coupled with the ability to directly challenge men in society who harm them.83 It must be recognized in law that the violation of women sexually and reproductively is a «form of unequal treatment.»
Could the once «democratic» society the Author's Guild created back in the 90's be creating a revolt against big time media companies such as Google and Amazon, have they really got true premise to contend that Google and Amazon are harming the book publishing industry much like the RIAA is attempting to do with P2P companies and their users.
Set in the year 21XX, Mega Man X builds on the groundwork of the original Mega Man games while taking a slightly darker and more serious approach to storytelling in a future world filled with Reploids, human - like androids with independent thought and free will, and Mavericks, Reploids that have turned against society to cause harm and destruction.
See, for example, this ZDNet article from yesterday about a new report saying «European cybersecurity agency ENISA has come down firmly against backdoors and encryption restrictions, arguing they only help criminals and terrorists while harming industry and society
-- Law societies: Instigate proceedings for the unauthorized practice of law only in cases where harm is alleged by a client of a non-lawyer provider, and drop the prohibition against lawyers sharing fees with non-lawyers.
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