Word: arguments
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Such efforts at reform may ultimately rebut the militant argument that crime will decrease only if the cops and courts get tougher. Admittedly, fear of dire punishment is often an effective deterrent. So, for that matter, is torture. But the reformers argue that the hope of an orderly society lies in making "equal and exact justice" more equal and more exact. As Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr has observed, "Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary...
After three days and nights of argument, Couve exploded in a rare, undiplomatic burst of emotion. "Too much has been asked of France!" he cried. "Solemn engagements have been broken. It's absurd to continue." And with that, he scurried back to report his defeat to an angry De Gaulle. The Elysee Palace issued an ominous ultimatum: France henceforth would boycott all Common Market meetings while its government makes "the studies necessary to draw conclusions from the setback." This was a clear threat to withdraw from the Common Market...
There are other sides to the argument. The absence of servants, it is said, ensures delightful privacy. Professor Clifford Kirkpatrick of Indiana University claims that "the servantless life results in shared work and play within the family group," and "makes for cooperation with relatives and friends"; besides, "if there were servants as in the old South, wives might get too lazy to go back to work after the children are grown." Some American wives accept such rationalizations and often insist on "doing everything" themselves; this may result in a serene sense of accomplishment, but just as often in a martyred...
...soon as the debate went off the air, students and teachers swarmed around Bundy, trying to keep the argument going. "What about the napalm?" American University Government Professor Daniel Berman kept demanding. "I've answered you now three times, politely," said Bundy. "Oh, you have, have you?" snapped Berman. "Yes," said Bundy wearily, "I have...
Whitener certainly represented the vast majority, yet under the standards of a democracy, which hold that all men are equal, his argument was open to question. As Catholic Theologian the Rev. John Courtney Murray has said: "Human life has a basic sacredness whether a person holds high office or whether he is among the humblest." Only recently, New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller, reluctantly signing a bill abolishing the death penalty in New York except in the case of cop killers and life prisoners who kill guards or other inmates, asked pointedly: "If the proponents admit that...