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...number of court decisions support Griffin's argument. In the famous Sony Betamax case in 1984, the Supreme Court refused to block the sale of vcrs even though they might be used in some instances to make illegal copies of shows. And in the 1999 Rio lawsuit, Diamond Multimedia (whose corporate name, perhaps not coincidentally, happens to be Sonicblue) won the right to continue marketing the first portable MP3 music player, the Rio, even though many people used it to play pirated copies of copyrighted music. As long as Sonicblue and Morpheus can demonstrate just two legitimate uses of their...
Loury’s “middle way” between ignoring and accounting for race is insightful and well-defended. He is critical of the constructionist argument for the absence of race-consciousness in policy debates. According to this view, differential treatment of individuals of different races, even if the results are positive, violates the American principle of individual autonomy (every person must be treated equally regardless of personal characteristics like race or gender). Loury contrasts the “good” of individual autonomy with the “good” of attempting...
...theoretical “thought experiment” (a real-world example considered in the abstract), then skirts the issue, then makes a revealing comment about why he has danced around the point: “I desperately want to avoid having the far-reaching implications of my argument projected onto the narrow and partisan ground of the debate over racial preferences...
...race because the causes of the racial divide lie within the black community itself: in the innate inferiority of African-Americans (as the infamous 1994 book The Bell Curve suggests) or in the community’s own inadequacy (according to the “black pathology” argument). Liberal thinkers contend that the government should take race into account because American society at large bears responsibility for the disadvantages many African-Americans face. Their policies on race consider diversity to be a desirable social goal and tend in some measure to compensate blacks for the economic, social, political...
...Bush team believes Iraq's neighbors are skeptical because of Washington's own hesitancy in dealing with Saddam over the past decade. All that is needed to bring them aboard, the argument goes, is a cast-iron commitment to finish off the regime in Baghdad, and a battle plan for a quick and decisive victory. The administration hopes to provide Cheney with both before he flies out. The commitment part is there. But the battle plan will be more difficult. Saddam's Iraq is a tougher nut to crack than Taliban-held Afghanistan; Hussein still has a large army...