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...role in determining foreign policy initiatives in the post-cold war era. But the mere existence of moral issues are not enough to always justify military intervention. Moral wrongs and human rights abuses exist all over the globe. The cost (such as a nuclear war) should at times deter us from intervening, even when the offenses are egregious (as in Joseph Stalin's murder of some 20 million Ukranians as the result of his collectivization plan). In this case, we judge the moral wrongs in Serbia to outweigh the cost of righting them...
Schmertzler said the Radcliffe alumni office was not willing to include the report in their reunion packets because it might deter graduates from coming to the reunion and elicit complaints. Schmertzler said the committee distributed the reports...
...abiding citizens use firearms to stop or deter between 300,000 and one million violent crimes every year (depends on whose statistics one believes). NCS figures (U.S. Department of Justice) show that law-abiding citizens who resist attack using a firearm have a lower chance of being injured and a greater chance of preventing completion of the crime than those who don't resist at all or those who resist with all other weapons (knives, fists, Mace, umbrellas...
Green did not rule out intervening in the future, however, if he deter- mines actions by a Harvard professor to be too extreme...
Many Earthwatch volunteers are teachers who, like Schwarzendruber, wish to use their research this way. Students can also participate, but the cost of the trips may deter many from applying...