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the bruise reality leaves to prove it touched you.
means Physical, mental, or moral injury — the damage done to someone or something.
from From Old English 'hearm,' meaning hurt, grief, or evil, with cousins across the Germanic family — Old Norse 'harmr' (grief, sorrow) and Old High German 'harm' (insult, injury). The thread running through them all leans less toward simple physical wounds and more toward grief and wrong done, suggesting our ancestors felt harm as something the heart registered as much as the body.
- old norse
- harmr meant grief and sorrow, not just injury
- legal weight
- courts measure it before they measure intent
- do-no-harm myth
- those exact words appear nowhere in Hippocrates' oath
- physics cousin
- harm and harmony share no root, despite the tease
- reduction
- harm reduction saves lives by refusing to judge first
thalidomide — drug that caused birth defects in ~10,000 children in the 1950s-60s when given for morning sickness
flint water crisis — lead contamination affected 100,000+ residents in michigan starting in 2014
bhopal disaster — chemical plant leak killed ~3,800 people in india on december 3, 1984