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...with Cheney's views on national security and foreign policy. Cheney's logic almost always leads to one conclusion: that it is better for the U.S. to act, even if it means taking the risk of acting alone, than it is to sit still. "It's not ideological with him. It's about leadership," says a senior adviser to Cheney. "If he has a bias, it's a bias for action...
...have opined? Publicizing scientific facts about when fetuses develop their bodily systems cannot be reasonably construed as “inflammatory.” Equating pictures of developing human fetuses with “a vicious attack on women” or “intimidation” defies logic. On the contrary, such images are a beautiful celebration of maternity and early human life, worthy of an art display (I’d suggest the halls of the Committee on Degrees in Women’s Studies). Few things are less intimidating to me—or more uplifting...
...such as what an undergraduate who decides not to seek an abortion might do. Instead, the Natalie posters are aimed to elicit guilt. This approach labels women who seek abortions as Baby Killers, instead of giving them options. Stooping so low as to use guilt, not logic, is morally repugnant...
...from their bad choices because of its compelling interest in the health of its citizenry—is unpersuasive. It is incredibly paternalistic and condescending toward the tens of millions of Americans who make the conscious decision to start smoking, knowing the harmful health effects associated with it. The logic of the argument is that smokers’ loss of liberty is less important than the government’s compelling interest in smoker’s health, and the underlying assumption is that the government knows what is better for people than people themselves...
...people get hooked when they are young, they never make a conscious rational decision to smoke. While some individuals might be happier as tax-induced former smokers, second-order effects simply should not be used to justify public policy unless supported by very strong evidence. The entire web of logic underpinning the tax increase unfolds easily if the tenuous assumptions behind it prove untrue. Do all smokers secretly want to quit? Did all or most never rationally decide to start in the first place? Do the gains to the people who quit and are happier outweigh the costs imposed...