They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation.

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This is because when the confrontation occurs the witness loses his or her anonymity, which increases the risk of retaliation from the transgressor.

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This suggests that after an unsuccessful social confrontation with the transgressor, the witness prefers to report to an employee in a position of power above the transgressor.

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He consulted widely among his companions, and the message of Islam forbade a believer from killing another believer at the risk of damnation as a punishment for the transgressor.

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They investigated two independent variables: (1) the presence or absence of an unsuccessful social confrontation with the transgressor regarding the fraud and (2) the type of fraudulent act that occurred.

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For example, English sentence structures focus on agents, and in our criminal-justice system, justice has been done when we've found the transgressor and punished him or her accordingly (rather than finding the victims and restituting appropriately, an alternative approach to justice).

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Woe to the transgressor.

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