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...would give me pleasure if the murderers got the deaths that they deserve. But I still say, on reflection, that, for the sake of our longer term health and moral ecology, there are some pleasures we should forgo. Killing the killers is one of them...
...have argued in the past that the death penalty was justified, in certain brutal cases, on the basis of the social contract. That is: Some hideous crimes demand the ultimate punishment in order to satisfy the essentially civilizing deal that we make with one another as citizens. We forgo individual revenge, deferring to the law, but depend upon a certainty that the law will give us a justice that must include appropriate harshness. I favored the Texas folk wisdom: "He needs killing." If the law fails in that task, I said, and people see that evil is fecklessly tolerated, then...
...would be "suspended" if she challenged policy. Only in 1992 did she get a real hearing, when S. Ramasundaram took over Tamil Nadu's family-welfare program. Nirmala told him that birth-control targets made mothers distrust nurses and resist the policy. Later, she said nurses would forgo the sterilization bonuses if allowed to do their jobs without so much government interference...
GORE: (via e-mail) "I challenge you to accept my proposal that we both reject the use of soft money to run issue ads...I also challenge you to take a further step. Let's agree to forgo all campaign advertising and instead agree to a regular series of debates on the major issues facing the country." March...
Imagine a world where middle-class families are subsidized while poor ones are pushed off welfare, where employee compensation is based not on production but on reproduction, and where a war is brewing between folks who have children and folks who forgo them. According to Elinor Burkett, author of The Baby Boon, you're already living...