Word: indifferentism
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"I wanted to live the life of a daring, brash, fun-loving flyer, indifferent to the hazards of his profession, calm and stoic when the adrenaline flowed, fatalistic about life-and-death situations," McCain explained in Pensacola. "In truth, the image I aspired to was, in the end, only irresistible...
Instead of rolling all our problems into one big war, in which rape and coal-mining are equivalent, those in favor of change would be (and often are) better served by careful parsing of the distinctions, by working through the possibility of unintended consequences before acting, and by drawing connections...
Harvard Law School’s Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society (GPSTS) met on Beacon Hill yesterday morning to protest a provision of a gaming bill—sponsored by Law School graduate Deval L. Patrick ’78—that would criminalize online poker in Massachusetts. About...
For the past three years, independent filmmakers have faced growing obstacles in obtaining permits and funding to make their movies. "Politics has a direct impact on my art. I can't stay indifferent. Either I get involved or I lose," she says, sitting in her office that she has temporarily...
So why are we appalled by cruelty to a hawk but indifferent to chickens treated as trash? Masson argues that the problem is not human malice, but rather a lack of exposure to certain animals. He suggests that as more people begin keeping hens as pets, and learn more about...