Word: logical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only taken the next small step, in assuming that its particular perspective is in some way superior. There will always be those, in some bizarre twist of fascist logic, who cling to a society delineated and determined by one's race and heritage...
...with the latter line of reasoning, a sort of journalistic (and therefore crude) Freudianism, suggest that Ames was never able to fill his father's considerable shoes at the agency, leaving him unfulfilled and disgruntled and in need, therefore, of some dramatic adventure. Carried out to its extreme, this logic would probably go on to suggest that Ames not only had a desire to spy but also a need to get caught, thus the poor planning and sloppy execution on his part...
...when the student was sufficiently exhausted) constituted extenuating circumstances which justify copying someone else's work, especially if the offending student is later appalled at what he or she did. This yields a fertile new area for research. As a friend of mine pointed out, the same logic should let her murder somebody if she was feeling tired or stressed out, as long a she was suitably appalled the next...
Drugs can kill, of course. But drug prohibition kills too. In Washington, an estimated 80% of homicides are drug related, meaning drug-prohibition related. It's gunshot wounds that fill our urban emergency rooms, not ODs and bad trips. Then there's the perverse financial logic of prohibition. The billions we spend a year on drug-related law enforcement represents money not spent on improving schools and rebuilding neighborhoods. Those who can't hope for the lasting highs of achievement and self-respect are all too often condemned to crack...
...slave traders, slave owners and ghetto employers and landlords. Far from their being another oppressed group, he says, when it comes to black America, Jews were oppressors. This leaves Jews, who played a major role in the black civil rights movement, feeling betrayed. And as a matter of logic, points out Farrakhan adversary Henry Louis Gates, chairman of Harvard's department of African-American studies, it is dubious. To blame Jews today for acts centuries ago, Gates says, carries "the tacit conviction that culpability is heritable...