Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ralph: Let us lapse briefly into logic, dearest. The average flight contains 40 or 50 people who are convinced that the plane is going to crash, maybe 50 who are enraged by the mandatory 30-minute delay in getting off the ground, and another 100 or so who are busy getting giddy or truculent through the magic of booze. Under the circumstances, which is better: a calming smile or a conventional dose of feminist grimness? Wanda: Pilots don't have to chuckle when they give one of those reassuring Chuck Yeager speeches saying that there's nothing to worry about...
Next, Mr. Gooen brings up the old rape exception. It strikes me as funny because often I hear the charge that pro-lifers do not really care about the fetus, they just want to punish the woman. Actually, that type of twisted logic is exactly what is behind the rape exception. It says that the law will make an exception for this woman because she was not responsible for getting pregnant, implying that we will punish this other woman who had intercourse consensually because she is guilty. Pro-lifers, on the other hand, are not so concerned with laying guilt...
Within hours of the explosion, Prime Minister Bettino Craxi convened a special meeting of government officials in Bologna to discuss the crime. The attack, the Prime Minister said, was the product "not of madness but of something more: a diabolical logic that directs itself against our country...
...greatest English storyteller between Chaucer and Shakespeare." The wit and irony that would soon mark the best Elizabethan playwrights already distinguished More. Like his friend Erasmus, More revered classical Greece. His masterpiece, Utopia (1516), a fantasy of the ideal commonwealth, imagined human beings so perfectly ruled by logic that they were happy to own no property and to labor modestly and endlessly for the common good...
...death diminishes me." It has always sounded excessive. John Donne expressed that thought more than 350 years ago in a world without mass communications, where a person's death was signaled by a church bell. "It tolls for thee," he said. Does it really? Logic would suggest that an individual's death would not diminish but rather enhance everybody's life, since the more who die off, the more space and materials there will be for those who remain. Before his conversion, Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge...