Word: oneself
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whether linear structure itself mattered. A much sought-after consultant, Douglas Rushkoff, advised television executives that the programming of the future would consist of "predeconstructed" shows like Beavis and Butt-head, in which the principals are intentionally distanced from their own programs. The ideal would be to remove oneself from experience while engaging in experience and to make experience deliberately fleeting. The structure of the sitcom Seinfeld continued to depend on dozens of fast-moving, bite-size scenes that simulate the effect of surfing while remaining within a single coherent situation, thus pre-empting the viewer's urge to switch...
...those who fly the banner of the rights and wishes of the patient, we must keep in mind that certain individual freedoms, such as the right to sell oneself into slavery, must be restricted because of their broader societal implications. And the societal implications of physician-assisted suicide are grave, as is the potential for misuse. The right to die could become a duty to die, with patients feeling pressurized into requesting euthanasia. Patients might choose to die not because they cannot bear physical pain anymore, or because they don't want to live, but because they decide that...
Having an honor code does not mean that people who were previously inclined to cheat will not; what it means instead is that whether to live morally becomes a choice; a sense of responsibility is incurred--both to oneself and to others; and the idea triumphs that we should do what we know or think is right because it's right and not because we have to. There will be few proctors in the real world; therefore, moral choices must ultimately come from within...
When B.U. fans began chanting "Harvard Sucks" at the game's end, one could content oneself only with thinking that had Harvard fans showed up in number, they would have answered with the cheer "That's all right, that's OK. You're gonna work for us someday...
While some students surely exploit the possibilities for deception which lie within the process, others emphasize the long-term ramifications of being honest with oneself...