Word: guilts
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...only it were that easy for the rest of us. Saying no can be awkward, guilt inducing, nerve racking, embarrassing, even risky to friendship and career. "No may be the most powerful word in the language, but it's also potentially the most destructive, which is why it's hard to say," says William Ury, director of the Global Negotiation Project at Harvard University, who addresses that struggle in his new book, The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No and Still Get to Yes. Ury, a professional negotiator whose work has taken him to such conflict-ridden...
...took over as Japan's Prime Minister last September, there was concern inside and outside of Tokyo that his right-wing leanings would put Japan on a collision course with its Asian neighbors. As a young legislator, Abe had pushed for a reexamination of Japan's expressions of guilt over its actions in World War II, and had called for changes in Japanese textbooks on the war. But during his first few months in office, Abe confounded critics by appearing to curb some of his earlier conservative inclinations. He moved to repair relations with China and South Korea, which...
Neither side of the abortion debate deals with grief. The anti-choice faction, including CPCs, hopes to fill women with guilt to prevent them from making a truly informed decision, and the pro-choice camp often fails to provide healing for those who grieve following their procedures. Neither position recognizes that when grief is allowed healthy expression, most women will begin to understand their sorrow, integrate it into their lives and eventually feel better. Grief is a noble human emotion that enables us to cope with the anguish of loss that accompanies life's most difficult decisions...
...Every Harvard student knows too well these fatigue-sodden experiences. Such moments should remind us how our bodies can break down when we ignore our need for sleep. Yet, when Microsoft Word opens again and we see page 10 rather than page 25, all we feel is guilt or anger that we succumbed to sleep. Here we glimpse one of the most destructive pathologies of our student culture: Sleep has become just another extracurricular—and an undesired and maligned one at that...
...people whose ultimate arbiter is utility, such actions seem naïve or irrational, a sentimental indulgence for guilt-ridden liberals. Yet the mighty logic of utility would also condemn voting as foolish. The probability that your vote would influence the outcome of an election is impossibly small. It would not even compensate for your having to schlep down to the voting booth...