Damage
Violate
Violate verb - To fail to keep.
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- Mad Scientist aliens accept that they caused the stampede and violate their code of non-interference to repair the damage.
Source: Webcomic / Thog Infinitron - Electronic Speech Impediment: Robots who partially violate a Law can suffer damage to their speech programming; one robot who unknowingly serves poisoned water ends up with a lisp.
Source: Literature / The Naked Sun -
But indiscriminate murder, acts that result in large amounts of collateral damage, and mass murder all violate the laws of the Underworld, since it results in "unnatural" death.
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