Word: judgmental
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...have theories of perception, theories of judgment, theories of evidence,” says Elgin, “[and] over time we can discover mistakes in our previous representations of things, but that doesn’t satisfy the question, can we truly be wrong about things...
...there are questions that the government's free-market economic godfathers, always on the prowl for a rent-seeker or free-loader, could be asking. Where do you draw the line between a sustainable farm and an unsustainable one? It's a judgment that has been made on entire industries in the past, when governments removed or cut the tariffs that protected the manufacturing sector. Why prop up farmers who are bad managers or whose poor practices on unproductive land are hurting the environment? The signals drought policy sends to good farmers are certainly mixed. And how come...
...course, one might say a discussion of any text, literature or history or politics, involves moral discussion and judgment. I am, of course, not blind to the moral force of humanistic inquiry, a point that Martha Nussbaum, among others, has made quite well. But the current model of university education seems particularly divorced from human action; its practical dimension seems to have been outsourced to extracurricular groups on campus. Yet mere intellectualism cannot in any way be said to replace the satisfaction of religious instruction...
...punchlines in the interviews. Just enough to entice, not so much as to disgust. Just like the full-body Speedo that Borat wears in one shot of the trailer. Rocky Balboa CELLULOID GOLD What can I say? The theme music alone exists in a space beyond all critical judgment. It sets the plot up for you, gives you shots of Stallone in a porkpie hat, and has big slabs of meat getting punched in a freezer. A movie that should not exist, could not exist, and would not exist if it weren’t for the fact that America...
...Whatever your convictions, if you truly believe that those who oppose abortion are all ideologues driven by perverse desires to inflict suffering on women, then you, in my judgment, are not fair-minded. ... I do not ask at this point that you oppose abortion, only that you speak about this issue in fair-minded words...