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...distribution pattern would involve continual interference with people's lives to prevent them from making transfers that would violate the pattern. A society which enforced equal income distribution would have to forbid people from doing things for other people for money after work. The government would have to outlaw capitalist acts between consenting adults. This restricts both what a person can do with his life and his income...
...slope or bowling lanes, but like the old cross country road races, this would be a test of who could get the fastest from point A to point B with only his wits and his car to get him there. The race would confer the status of outlaw upon all contestants, sure, but these were men who saw the obstacles of radar-equipped police much like Hillary saw the Himalayas in winter. They are ready to accept the consequences of their actions, and they believe they have made a rational choice...
...questioned the legality of the abortion, which Edelin (TIME, May 27) performed in October 1973. The operation took place after the U.S. Supreme Court had struck down most state abortion laws and well before the Massachusetts legislature enacted a new set of regulations that outlaw abortions after the 24th week. At issue were Edelin's actions during and immediately after the operation. The prosecution charged that the male fetus, which Edelin had estimated to be 20 to 22 weeks along, was in fact older and thus capable of survival outside the womb. Once the abortion had been completed, said...
Science is not on a plateau, and we will not be able to outlaw new theoretical methods of annihilation. I think though that we do need a more effective code of arms limitation. We need a better way of monitoring [the other side] to reassure other nations of the limitation on destruction. That can be carried out if we can get the Soviets to agree to on-site inspection...
...Theology of Hope in 1967, this German Protestant theologian offered no vision of an easily won future: behind the hope of Christ's Resurrection, he insisted, lay the dark courage of the Crucifixion. Now Moltmann takes a long, measured look at the God who became man and an outlaw, "a scandal to the devout and a disturber of the peace in the eyes of the mighty." Learnedly and often ardently written, The Crucified God is an intellectual delight: Moltmann ranges over history, literature and philosophy to explore the fundamental alienation of the Cross, in which God paradoxically "takes upon...