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...defenseless other--the injuries from which would be attributable to the "indirect responsibility" of the dog-owner only at the expense of credible notions of intentionality and responsibility. It is immaterial that the Israeli may have had a "legitimate" aim in "mopping up" (to use that morbid and dehumanizing expression) Palestinian resistance--even though the train of events demonstrated that there was in fact none--and that the Israelis did not intend specifically that the massacres be perpetrated. The use of means with foreseeably inhuman "incidental" effects cannot be justified by reference to some alleged 'legitimate...
...method of death is mostly a matter of morbid aesthetics, tangential to the far more basic and troublesome question of whether society ought to kill criminals. It is not at all clear that capital punishment deters would-be murderers better than the threat of life imprisonment. Yet there is a stubborn popular belief in the unique deterrent power of the death penalty. Even if deterrence were unequivocally disproved, however, public sentiment might still favor capital punishment. The death penalty, say proponents, is necessary to demonstrate that society takes its laws seriously; retribution seems a natural human urge. As the homicide...
Artists of every generation have had to deal with the fear that theirs is the last to walk the earth. There days, fear of extinction seems increasingly rational. It's no accident that much of contemporary writing is obsessed with survival, and poetry is increasingly morbid. Women poets in particular face a struggle for acceptance along with the panic of modern life. One way out of the death trap, suicide, seems at the very least impractical...
...Jackson does temper his sometimes morbid accounts ("Someone could smile at me then/shake my hand then gun me down") with sprinkled humorous comments, often in background harmonies or spoken asides. He does this most effectively in "T.V. Age," a Talking Heads-style song about modern-day peoploids living their lives in front of the tube. Jackson cries...
...extremely poor taste. The suffering of Mr. Kelley's family and co-workers must be acute enough without exacerbating their pain with the graphic depiction of his crushed body. The incident was covered extensively by the major Boston media outlets, all of whom refrained from such morbid illustration. What purpose did the Crimson's not one, but two, photographs serve? We feel that the Crimson should step back and assess the motives that compelled them to lower their journalistic standards in this manner. Such blatant sensationalism should be left to the likes of the National Enquirer. Brian MacCormack Don Morriaey...