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The technique is not new. Ruling regimes often use seemingly justified, rational laws to prevent needed change. Taken out of context, such laws--like those against disrupting the administration of the Law School--should not be broken. Clearly civil disobedience is against the law, and those who practice such acts...
AALARM tells us it is just trying to further the cause of rational discourse. But in a recent poster, AALARM cited questionable statistics to indicate that most Americans believed that non-heterosexual sex should be outlawed. One of the most basic assumptions of "rational discourse" is that you don't...
ALL RATIONAL PEOPLE agree that Saddam Hussein is a ruthless tyrant who remains a threat to Middle East peace. In fact, the Democratic Congress urged the Bush Administration for years to cut off aid to Iraq for its blatant human rights abuses. Why did President Bush steadfastly support Saddam until...
Before answering him you remind yourself of the rational and reasonable arguments for going to war. Kuwait had to liberated; Saddam had to be stopped; aggression could not be rewarded and Western interests (oil, bases, etc.) had to be secured and placed well outside the reach of one of those...
Albert Brooks seems to be a very rational fellow. His screen character is typically a man who listens attentively to other people, does not demand too much of them (or of life) and is always amenable to compromise should a conflict arise.