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Well John Rawls wouldn't either. The first flaw in the Ec 10 example is that it presents two fundamentally unequal situations. If you do your math, you will notice that the entire social pie in the first alternative is $9,900,001. In the second example, the social pie has mysteriously shrunken to a few crumbs, or $200. The choice is a joke...
That may be so. But it reveals the flaw that whoever voices "the public concern" in America risks allowing problems to fester as long as they remain covered beneath a skin of civility...
...interesting to watch it with a couple hundred would-be lawyers because they pick out every flaw," says Davis...
SOME especially courageous politicians, such as former presidential candidate Bruce Babbitt, have suggested applying a "means test" to Social Security benefits. It's a good idea, but it isn't enough. Social Security's inefficient system of distributing benefits is not its worst flaw...
...picture goes soft -- say, from the rigorous humanism of The Elephant Man to the emotional sops of Life Goes On. But that is no crucial flaw in what is at heart a love story written in pain. As Christy's parents, Brenda Fricker and Ray McAnally are flinty, unrouged, splendid. And Daniel Day-Lewis' triumph is nearly as spectacular as Christy's: to reveal the blind fury in his eyes and stunted gestures, to play him with a streak of fierce, black-Irish humor. Brilliantly, Day-Lewis shows a mind, and then a man, exploding from the slag heap...