Word: reasonable
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Many directors agree that they cast roles with particular physical types in mind. While an actor's physical type is only one of the factors that directors say they consider, some directors concede that it could be a reason why more Black actors are not cast...
Some directors say that the reason more Blacks aren't cast is that there simply aren't very many Black actors to begin with, because the undergraduate student body is only about 8 percent Black...
...would increase. I don't use drugs now. If they were legal, I would use them. Or rather, if marijuana were legal, I would use it occasionally instead of the legal drug I now use regularly, alcohol. To be sure, increased respect for the law is not the only reason so many middle-class, middle-age people have abandoned marijuana: you're also no longer so carefree about where your mind might take you on automatic pilot, especially in public. But society's official disapproval is a substantial deterrent. Without it, many of us would sneak the odd toke...
...dishonesty at the heart of the drug debate is the refusal of both sides to acknowledge the pleasure of getting high, a pleasure most participants in the debate probably have experienced themselves without damaging effect. That in itself is no reason to legalize marijuana, let alone more serious drugs. But sensible policy cannot be made without taking it into account...
...society of keeping them illegal is greater than the cost of learning to live with them. Out at the fringes of respectability is the libertarian argument: people have the right to control their own lives, even to wreck their own lives, if that is their choice. Unmentioned as a reason for legalizing drugs, though widely believed and acted on as a practical matter by most Americans, is what might be called the Dionysian argument. Look, it says, the desire for an occasional artificial escape from the human condition is part of the human condition. It is not ignoble. In fact...