On 31/03/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
on 3/31/07 12:00 PM, Oldak Quill at oldakquill@gmail.com wrote:
How do you even define "harm"? Physical damage? Mental upset?
To cut someone's head is to hurt them - this will heal.
To decapitate someone is to harm them - this will not heal.
This is not a definition of harm I recognise.
The Oxford English Dictionary on "harm": 'To do harm (to); to injure (physically or otherwise); to hurt, damage. Orig. intr. To be hurtful, with dative (like L. noc{emac}re), which was sometimes in ME. expressed by to, but generally became a simple object, making the verb trans.'