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...other hand, and it would be dishonest of me not to state this, the fact that companies are there is in implicit support of the status quo and explicit by virtue of the fact that they pay taxes. They contribute to the stability, at least in the short run, of the economy, and they contribute to the stability, at least in the short run, of the economy, and they contribute to the prestige of the existing administration by virtue of the fact that U.S. corporations are there. There are examples of companies that have modified their policies in South Africa...
...allowing everyone to do anything, by allowing people to judge their own levels of competence, one would be sanctioning those deaths. By assuming that each person is his own best judge, one would be placing implicit faith in man's self-perception. While this might benefit the expert or the lucky hiker, it might also sacrifice those who are ignorant, overly ambitious, or unlucky. According to one friend, Yates came back "the conquering hero." But suppose he had slipped and twisted an ankle, suppose he hadn't come back? What then...
...Implicit in what you say is a belief that these alternative ways of organizing work--with far more worker participation in decision-making within the enterprise--can succeed. What's your evidence...
...atheistic humanism" holds out to mankind only a half liberation, because it bases everything on economic determinism ignores spiritual dynamics. The result, he said, is that man's very being is "reduced in the worst way." Today, he said, "human val ues are trampled on as never before." Implicit in his statements was a basic judgment: the tactics of Marxist revolution, based as they are on class conflict, violate the most profound Christian teaching...
...hardly a model of judicial restraint. Rather, it is what scholars call "selectively activist," which some say means that its activism depends on whether or not it likes the result. One of its most activist decisions remains Roe vs. Wade (1973), which found in the Constitution an implicit right for women to have abortions. Although equal protection has of late been invoked less in the cause of the poor and the black, it has been extended to just about everyone else, including aliens, bastards and even 18-to-21-year-old males who were barred from drinking 3.2 beer...