Word: regardless
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...Burma [Oct. 22]. I don't mean to discount the recent evaporation of the U.S.'s moral authority, but it has been decades since the U.S. or any other nation could effect change based on rectitude. During the cold war, our influence was directed to opposing the Soviet Union, regardless of the dictators we might back toward that end. Ruling élites have lost their moral compasses because they have been blinded in their quest for material wealth. David Horn, Oakland, Calif...
...Africa. Yet, once in power, confronted by threats to the privilege that he had been elected into, Nkrumah moved to protect his position by repressing autonomous politics, once even telling agitating workers that their “former role of struggling against capitalists [was] obsolete.” Thus, regardless of the impressive credentials of those aspiring to power, the commitment to utilizing the privileges of the system to push a progressive agenda consistently decays into a lamentable conservatism. Far from being challenged, the system typically emerges unscathed, while the agents charged with its transformation find themselves transformed. At Harvard...
...Deontological Libertarianism is probably the branch more widely recognized among the non-libertarian population. They draw a distinct line between themselves and the consequentialists in that they see certain inherent rights as absolutely untouchable, regardless of costs of noninterference...
...omnibuses” of libertarianism are represented. Harris, a senior with a knack for the kind of convincing, charismatic conversation usually associated with politicians, firmly aligns himself with the Deontologists. But he does admit that it is tough to believe that some rights should be upheld regardless of situation...
...Regardless of their reasons for doing so, though, it seems that many students are finding a philosophical home in libertarianism—but not often a political...