Word: rationales
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Ho said he would impose restrictions on irrational and harmful speech, citing that "use of racial epithets does not make some sort of rational point."
Drake disagreed with the idea of rationality as a criteria for protecting speech, arguing that many accepted forms of speech circumvent rational processes. Drake said, "You can't distinguish between art that makes a rational point and art that doesn't."
But Ho said that while it was difficult to differentiate between rational and irrational, and between harmful and innocuous, speech, society should nevertheless try to make that distinction
It may be Travolta's apparent indifference to the upward and downward lurches of his career that draws him the nervous attention he has trouble comprehending. People in the movie business like to pretend they inhabit a rational universe, one where you can determine a star's course through a...
Courtroom as religious rite: Apollo--the law--sifts through the disorders of Dionysus--human nature in the wild, where Medea's children and Orestes' mother and Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman all are murdered. To re-establish order, the rational takes the irrational to court. Sometimes the result is...