Word: oughtness
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...Cowboys in Love Your story amply addressed straight people's insecurities about Brokeback Mountain, but you ought to have mentioned that the movie never would have been made without decades of equal-rights activism by gay men and lesbians. John Olski Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin...
There are various ways of addressing this concern, some philosophical and some pragmatic. On the philosophical end, one might question whether we ought to accept the “self-interest” model of rational choice foisted upon us by economists. After all, protest only seems irrational when “success” is so individualistically defined. On the pragmatic end, the public relations victories that human rights advocates are winning serve as evidence that one will not be alone in making ethical decisions and hence that such efforts at bringing about change need not be totally...
...Implied [in yesterday’s statement] is that if an interim dean is chosen or a new president or an interim president, we ought to be involved,” said
...over the course of the next semester, Ben-Shahar will lecture from the Sanders stage four times a week—twice for Positive Psychology, twice for the Psychology of Leadership—and he will teach his students that “happiness is and ought to be the ultimate end.” He’ll do it for as long as he can—because he’s a lecturer and not a research professor on the tenure track, he may only be allowed to teach here for one more year after he returns...
...membership of “Students For California Relocation of Harvard University,” gets the same right of passage.The name for this paradigm is “end-to-end”—the idea, in some sense, that the intelligence of a network ought to be pushed out to the edges, to the computer on your desk, your cell phone, or your new Internet-enabled toaster. Not all networks are built this way. The original analog telephone system had complex call-routing hardware in the middle, while the phones themselves were little more than converters...