Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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But students seem to be expecting at the same time that the masters will eventually let them do as they please if they only stretch the rules long enough, and that if they ignore the laws, the laws will go away. That doesn't seem likely. On the other hand...
"If they were European whites, there would be an uproar," he said.
Introduce a complication: your food is strictly rationed, or perhaps your heating, on subsistence level for a single person. If the stranger stays with you, your life will be seriously endangered. You might be very upset, but if it came down to the wire you would probably kick him out...
The difficulty of course arises when it would be possible for you to support him and take care of him, but you would rather not. You might agree if the demand were only for an evening, but hesitate if it were for the rest of your life. Do rights then...
The staunchest opposition comes from those who hold absolutely that conception is life. But belief in the inherent value of life is not a trite axiom: it avows some faith in the quality of existence beyond the moral injunction "Thou shalt not kill." It becomes easy to see as hypocritical...