Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hung back. She was not a hawk, but neither was she a participant in the peace movement. "The whole problem is so complex," she explained, "that for a while it overwhelmed me. But then I began to realize that the complexity of a problem shouldn't be a reason not to do anything." There was another influence working as well: "As my husband and I have grown older, we .have become increasingly aware of our Christian responsibilities and more deeply committed to our moral obligations, and this, too, led to my decision to participate...
...Frank I, Michelman '60, professor of Law, said, "I have no reason on the basis of what I learned from others to consider the appointment a distinguished one. When law schools set a professorship, they choose a man for prospective distinction. I think we can expect Supreme Court justices to be chosen in the same...
...other side capitulates. It may in fact be worse because everyone has seen the pictures in his own living room. If someone had blown up the ovens at Auchwitz or Buchenwald. they would have been rebuilt or the prisoners would have been shipped elsewhere. That is no reason for not blowing them up. The Jews in Germany were caught in their own pragmatism. They did not fight back because it would have made no difference. That could be though the very reason to fight...
...told continually that knowledge will make us free. We are taught to ignore irrational consequences and to put our faith in reason. Anyone who has tried to organize against the war knows that it is not the mind alone that defends the war, but the whole personality. We are fed reason in order to give an inferiority complex to the rest of our emotions and senses. What capitalism requires is a decision-maker who thinks his choices are rational...
There is another reason for not hurting people. We should try to reaffirm the difference between people and property. One of the deepest philosophical bases of capitalism is the belief that a person is his property. Since you are what you can buy, your purchases are an extension of yourself. Indeed, as Marx writes in the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, "If money is the bond which binds me to human life, and society to me, and which links me with nature and man, is it not the bond of all bonds? Is it not therefore also the universal agent...