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...aspire to some mythical ‘colorblind’ society, our society continues to treat people differently based on their race and ethnicity.” While it is possible to disagree about the degree to which racial differences affect life experience in America, only the most foolish would suggest that they do not exist. Yet what is profoundly mystifying to me, is why racism, or “differential treatment,” or whatever else one sees fit to call it, is somehow supposed to magically skip over Asian Americans in general and the sort of first...
...Think of a trapeze artist, suggests Adams, or a rock climber, motorcyclist or college kid on a hot date. Add some safety equipment to the equation - a net, rope, helmet or a condom respectively - and the person may try maneuvers that he or she would otherwise consider foolish. In the case of seat belts, instead of a simple, straightforward reduction in deaths, the end result is actually a more complicated redistribution of risk and fatalities. For the sake of argument, offers Adams, imagine how it might affect the behavior of drivers if a sharp stake were mounted in the middle...
...This is an invitation to look foolish, as with the predictions of doomed cities and nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners that were made 50 years ago,” he said in the survey...
That said, it would be foolish not to take cost-free steps to reduce the number of drunk driving accidents. Alas, interlocks are not a cost-free panacea. Although legislators typically spend other people’s money with wild abandon, even the most starry-eyed politician might balk at mandating the use of these locks, which cost rougly $1,000 per year. This increase, over two percent of the median American’s annual income, would significantly harm the quality of millions of Americans’ lives, imposing costs on adults who never drink...
...Show,” in which comedian Sacha Baron Cohen’s character first appeared, thrives on idiocy and prejudice. At its best, the show is a hilarious and biting social commentary on society’s bigotry and absurdities. Its foolish victims feel perfectly comfortable revealing their prejudices to some dumb and irrelevant foreigner, or else are too polite to disagree with him. For the most part, they have only themselves to blame for their humiliation...