Word: absurder
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...highly inane to me and vice versa. This does not seem to be a message that breeds understanding, but it is an idea that So needs to think about. I, personally, am all for "cross-cultural" learning; I actually think it ideal and beautiful, but I find it absurd and insulting that So insist some people conform or yield while others...
...Being a medical doctor. People say, "Well you're just a pathologist." My specialty is death. And if not a pathologist, who? Would you have a pediatrician do it? Or let's get more absurd. What if I was a urologist? Could I help only men end their lives...
...White House said its preference for air strikes against the Serbs so the Bosnian Muslims can acquire the means to defend themselves was "on hold." The allies, Washington said, wouldn't consider the U.S. option until after the Bosnians voted on the U.N.-sponsored peace plan. "That's absurd," said Danish Foreign Minister Niels Petersen angrily. "The question of tying anything in the European Community's position to the referendum ((didn't even come up in)) our discussions" with Secretary of State Warren Christopher. "The real problem," says a White House aide, "is that Christopher couldn't sell the Europeans...
There are two logical flaws operating here, both of which are absurd and dangerous. The first involves the over-board definition of public space and government jurisdiction. The second centers on whether, once having satisfactorily defined a space as public and subject to government supervision, certain sorts of ideas can selectively be banned from it. (Stop me if you've heard this one before...
...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumptions comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...