Word: deters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accustomed of late. President Bok, in his refusal to address or even recognize the existence of the peaceful protestors who attended the opening, yet again demonstrated his unwillingness to confront the South Africa issue openly and forcefully. Meanwhile, the often crude and threatening efforts of Kennedy School administrators to deter the protestors from having their say -- including their insistence that the demonstrators violated an "agreement" that never existed -- reflects a frame of mind that values the forms of pomp and ceremony over the substance of debate about meaningful issues. We sincerely hope that this reluctance to deal with reality will...
...will emanate from all parts of the world in protest against the World Council of Churches' latest investment in lawless terrorism and murder, its grant to the Patriotic Front in Rhodesia [Oct. 2]. Unless W.C.C. member churches protest loudly or withdraw their support, or both, what is to deter the council from continuing such irresponsible gifts to left-wing guerrilla organizations in the future...
...reformer's morality has always taught that the main objective of punishment is ulterior: to deter or rehabilitate. In this design, punishment should not do the one thing it says it will do-punish. It is not to make the criminal suffer, to make him feel the force of society's anger for his deed. It is surely not communal revenge...
...punishment should be punishment before it is anything else. If it does deter other potential criminals or rehabilitate the convicted, then that should be greeted as a pleasant surprise. The first business, without being bloodthirsty about it, is to keep society's contract with itself and punish a crime as it promised it would. Author C.S. Lewis has pointed out the totalitarian possibilities in treating criminals as sick people who need to be cured: "If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call...
Although the punitive-minded want higher maximum sentences, much can be gained by a rigorous and consistent imposition of sentences already set. It is possible to argue endlessly about the two central questions surrounding the death penalty: 1) Does it deter? and 2) Is it moral? But the great importance of the issue is symbolic. The argument would tend to abate if the courts worked better at imposing noncapital penalties. On the other hand, restoring capital punishment would produce a moral mess. It would open the U.S. further to charges of racism and hypocrisy; every time a black...