Word: logical
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...touches upon the basic logic of ecotourism: wildlife is more valuable running free than killed or captured. But it will be difficult to bring the benefits of tourist dollars to the more traditional Indian tribes of the region without disrupting their way of life. Some of the tribes will trade elaborate traditional cloaks called kushmas, which take three months to make, for a machete or an ax -- far below what tourists would pay for the same item. Peruvian biologist Ernesto Raez fears, however, that encouraging the Indians to reorganize themselves to serve even small numbers of tourists will require profound...
Evil is anyone outside the tribe. Evil works by dehumanizing the Other. A perverse, efficient logic: identifying others as evil justifies all further evil against them. A man may kill a snake without compunction. The snake is an evil thing, has evil designs, is a different order of being. Thus: an "Aryan" could kill a Jew, could make an elaborate bureaucratic program of killing Jews. Thus: white men could come in the middle of the night in Mississippi and drag a black man out and hang...
...evil is a constant presence in the human soul, it is also true that there are more souls now than ever, and by that logic both good and evil are rising on a Malthusian curve, or at any rate both good and evil may be said to be increasing in the world at the same rate as the population: 1.7% per annum...
...ever said that democracies would make purely rational decisions. That's part of the price of granting sovereignty to the unwashed masses. Anyway, are there purely rational answers to these highly emotional public policy questions? If John Locke were alive today, would he be able to use cool-headed logic to convince John Rawls of the necessity of capital punishment? I doubt...
Washington still hopes to persuade Mengistu to step aside by turning his own logic against him. The President has claimed that he alone represents unity for Ethiopia against the secessionist demands of the Eritreans. But if there is no political settlement, the Americans will argue, the Eritreans are poised to win their independence by force. What's more, the U.S. will maintain, Ethiopia can remain intact even with Mengistu gone because the Eritreans, to everyone's amazement, say they will defer their dream of a separate state...