Word: evilness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sports writer, I myself am guilty of the near-necessary evil of worshipping the statistics gods. Too often is a story, or our attention for that matter, centered on numbers and other easily recognizable heuristics for information intake. Unfortunately, whether writing a story or leafing through the paper, it’s all too easy to cling to glamorized, surface level details rather than dedicate the time to delve into the nitty-gritty. Although essential to the team, these roles take time to appreciate and too often receive less attention than deserved from non-affiliates of the team. I dedicate...
...media responded with a flurry of articles about how torture porn raises our appetite for actual torture—quick, painful, cheap justice. President Bush tried to sell us his own Jigsaw level of certitude, marketing himself as the decider, the protector of the homeland, the banisher of the evil-doers, and we elected him—twice. Last week proved that we’ve learned our lesson: Absolute justice may be attractive, but it isn’t real...
...that its horror was too monstrous to write about in the conventional fictional forms slipped into the conversations of literary intellectuals. Fiction implies maneuver - heroic activity, moral preachment, even softening sentiment, all of which gestures seem trivial and inappropriate in the context of unprecedented, and in some sense inexplicable, evil. Putting the point simply, it is impossible to think of a novel, play or film that conveys the full effect of the Nazi genocide. The works that abide - Anne Frank's diary, Primo Levi's recollections of the death camps, Schindler's List - are all starkly factual...
...reader an introduction into the world as the three philosophers saw it.The three philosophers focus on questions of God’s identity and his intentions in creating the world the way it is. Is this the best world that God could have created? If it is, why does evil exist? If God could have created better worlds, why would he have chosen to create this one? Liebniz argues that this is the best of all possible worlds, since it would be impossible that “an infinitely good and perfect God could choose anything less...
...need not only look to the past for lessons about the evil of trays. As the Adams House REP rep said, “The goal of tray-less dining is not to make you eat less; it is to make you waste less.” Let this be a stern warning to all those who take Marsala chicken only as weights to keep their napkins from flying away. These fools can’t see the forest through the trees (because they cut them all down to print this issue...