Word: meaninglessness
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What became readily apparent during the debate was the Objectivist's reliance on morally arbitrary and meaningless facts. For example, a person is to be left to die because one was born impoverished, and thus can contribute nothing to society, despite the fact that they had no control over the circumstances of their birth. And they consistenly ignore the fact that, while, say, Michael Jordan (to use an example from Prof. Sandel's Justice lectures) did work very hard to utilize his talents for basketball, those talents would have been all for naught without the City of Chicage (a government...
...NCAA Tournament represents a new season for all 32 teams competing. A year's worth of wins, losses and ties can be rendered meaningless by the vagaries of fate...
...killers, Eric Roberts and Anthony Edwards do a fine job conveying vulnerability as well as creepiness. But the movie can't seem to muster much of an opinion about these drifters and their crimes. This conceptual uncertainty may explain strange, meaningless scenes like one in which color suddenly fades to black and white and we see Roberts, moody and shirtless, playing guitar on a boat in Mexico as if he'd run away to a Chris Isaak video. Maybe we are being told that society's true enemy is the frustrated musician...
...seen Saturday nights on cnn's Capital Gang--and she shares the public's general disenchantment with this race. "It's been a dispiriting campaign," she says. "We've learned that education is good and drugs are bad, and not much else. But while the debate may be meaningless, the choice in a presidential election never...
...resigned myself to sealing my meaningless envelope and trying to muster the excitement to drop it in the mailbox with the same panache with which I would have pulled the lever. I would love to believe that envelope is even going to be opened in time to make a difference in the outcome, but I know that it will...