Word: logical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dean Lewis has chosen to offend the College community a third time with his very practical decision to ban Hanukkah menorahs from student dormitory rooms. Let's follow his logic. This past December, a first-year creates a Rube Goldberg menorah from a three-hole punch. The candles topple. The desk and computer catch fire. Dean thinks, "What if other desks and computers catch on fire when irresponsible students create defective holiday contraptions? We must prevent all Jewish students from lighting menorahs...
First, to the practical argument. While the staff rightly observes that the steady delivery of mass mailings similar to Simons' could slow the exchange of information over the Harvard server and clutter student e-mailboxes, it undermines its own logic by conceding that filters could be put in place to restrain mass mailings. Claims that the "legitimate" user would somehow be punished by such a program are specious at best...
...despite the logic favoring a policy of limited strategic trade, many in the Republican party remain reluctant to abandon free trade. In so doing, they threaten both the continued political viability of the party and the economic health of the nation. It is time for the Republican party to replace free trade with a more flexible trade policy that allows for constructive responses to areas where free trade does not represent the best alternative. The United States can not and should not continue to tolerate the mercantilistic policies of its trading partners that result in lower, living standards...
...same logic holds for abortion: Pro-choice supporters have implicitly resolved that abortion is not murder. If it is murder, they cannot logically explain their decision that one has the right to commit such a terrible wrong...
...trade, as on other points, of course, Buchanan often appeals less to economic logic than to nationalistic nostalgia. Last week he apostrophized the faces on Mount Rushmore as those of fellow protectionists, and he was right. George Washington was a Buy American booster who boasted that he drank only U.S.-brewed ale, and Thomas Jefferson came over to that side as President. Both Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt assailed free trade. T.R.'s view: "Pernicious indulgence in the doctrine of free trade seems inevitably to produce fatty degeneration of the moral fiber...