Word: argumentative
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...Watching your precious kid sister get killed and eaten might well turn you into a psychopath who kills and eats people. The argument is plausible: the bitten becomes the biter, and takes his revenge by making sure the biters get bit. Plausible, yes, but a lot less interesting than the grownup spectacle of the super-Mensa, super-crazy Hannibal in the first two books...
...signing an affidavit he had not read. But despite the presence of dozens of onlookers (including this TIME reporter), despite the rarity of a criminal trial in which witnesses are called and the defendant actually has a lawyer, two of the three presiding judges slept through Chen's closing argument. A few weeks later, Zhao was sentenced to three years in jail...
...ruled by fear and violence." Ryzhkov claims that the armed forces, Interior Ministry, FSB and those who have retired from them to join private security services "are running this country, own its economy and use violence and murder as habitual management techniques." A U.S. businessman in Moscow seconds the argument. "While you in the press are obsessed by Politkovskaya and Litvinenko, you've missed that half a dozen major oil executives and another half-dozen major bankers have been murdered in the last few months." Unlike Litvinenko's sickness, Russia's may not be fatal. But like his, it starts...
...disagree with Isaacson's argument that idealism needs to be tempered with realism. Idealists do not lie. They are so convinced of the righteousness of their position that deception is not an option. They hold the moral high ground in policy debates and do not create false impressions, like the current President. Idealists promoting democracy would never trample on civil liberties or imprison people without recourse to due process of law. Jeff T. Barrie Philomath, Oregon...
...what about the argument that there are two sexes and they need exposure to each other? They do. They need to know how to treat each other fairly, generously, compassionately, but competing with their own gender for the attentions of the other doesn’t insure anything good...