Word: logic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Moreover, everything in life that is dangerous, risky or bad disproportionately affects the poor: slum housing, street crime, small cars, hazardous jobs. By this logic, coal mining should be outlawed because the misery and risk and diseases of coal mining disproportionately fall on people who need the money. The sons of investment bankers do not go to West Virginia to mine. (They go there to run for the Senate...
...answer is that little thing called human dignity. According to the libertarians' markets-for-everything logic, a poor mother ought equally to be allowed to sell herself into slavery--or any other kind of degradation--to send her kids through college. Our society, however, draws the line and says no. We have a free society, but freedom stops at the point where you violate the very integrity of the self (which is why prostitution is illegal...
Boris Yeltsin got up on the wrong side of bed Wednesday, so he fired his government for the third time in 18 months. "There's no logic or reason in this," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "The decision to fire Yevgeny Primakov is based entirely on Yeltsin's emotions -- his irritation at the prime minister's independence and lack of deference to him, and Yeltsin's characteristic vindictiveness toward anyone who threatens to overshadow him." Of course it might also be intended as a reminder to the legislature, which has begun impeachment proceedings against Yeltsin...
...Docket Committee is composed of Richards Professor of Chemistry Cynthia M. Friend, Pearson Professor of Modern Mathematics and Mathematical Logic Warren D. Goldfarb '69, and Professor of Economics David M. Cutler...
There is a lapse in parental logic that goes from "I don't get it" to "It must be evil," and from that to "It makes kids evil." Today, moms and dads gaze at the withdrawn souls across the kitchen-table chasm. They see what their kids wear; they may know what their kids see. But, in another Manson lyric, they "fail to see the anguish in my eyes." Parents should try looking into their kids' eyes. If they do, and do more, they might even "see the tragic/Turnin' into magic...