Word: fatalism
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...that animals are restrained by clamping their heads for up to 23 hours a day,” she writes. “They are denied food and water. They have implants surgically implanted in their brains and eyes. They are forcibly addicted to drugs and alcohol and given fatal diseases. Animals have had their eyes sewn shut, their heads smashed in, and been burned, blinded, maimed, and starved...
...chess has a third--and unique--characteristic that is particularly fatal. It is not just monomaniacal and abstract, but its arena is a playing field on which the other guy really is after you. The essence of the game is constant struggle against an adversary who, by whatever means of deception and disguise, is entirely, relentlessly, unfailingly dedicated to your destruction. It is only a board, but it is a field of dreams for paranoia...
...fire or on a sinking ship, however, such a strategy can be fatal. So is it possible to override this instinct--or prevent it from kicking in altogether...
...suspected eating disorder many years ago may have led to the permanent brain damage that landed Schiavo in the middle of a national debate. When the dust settles, I hope politicians and the media will turn their attention to the potentially fatal effects of eating disorders. Mark Reese Draper, Utah...
...nothin', not a kiss not a smile/ Just open the door and let me lie down for a while," and the quixotic lover of All the Way Home, whose modest flirtation at last call amounts to "Maybe your first choice he's gone," suffer from near fatal cases of beautiful loser-itis. When Springsteen shifts into reportage, his details--the way turtles eat the skin from the corpse's eyes on Matamoros Banks, a prostitute's price for sex on Reno--can seem like overcompensation for his romantic indulgences...