Word: meaninglessness
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WITHIN THIS RAWLSIAN framework a reflexive defense of pornographic freedom becomes utterly meaningless. Why should pornography be legal before anyone knows whether he or she will be a victim of pornography...
...subsidized Harvard Salient, editor Thomas Firestone '86 calls on the University's governing Corporation to divest from USSR-related firms, and in so doing to cease "bankrolling the Kremlin." But what the Salient, the Republican Club, and individual conservatives are really trying to do is confuse the issue with meaningless comparisons which create a false reductio ad absurdam...
Divestment, you see, "would render meaningless the gains [non-whites] have already made." Imagine all the progess in South Africa, after a decade of intense sacrifice and struggle in the corporate board room, down the drain...
...while soccer isn't horseshoes by a long shot, those "almosts" aren't totally meaningless...
...black leaders, dismissed the Port Elizabeth speech as "bitterly disappointing." Dr. Nthato Motlana, a senior civic leader in Soweto, South Africa's largest black township, branded Botha's remarks an "absolute waste of time." Leaders of the outlawed African National Congress, delivering their assessment from Zambia, called the proposals "meaningless amendments of the apartheid system," while the Sowetan, South Africa's largest black daily, editorialized: "The unified South Africa only reflects another glorified system of homelands . . . (Apartheid) cannot be dressed up in false colors. We are not that stupid...