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...real loss we feel at senseless death and suffering cannot be explained or understood without a God to endow value to we peculiar arrangements of molecules. Nor can our moral outrage gain any traction without a judge and executor to give justification to our preference to live rather than...
...students have arrived here mostly through competition, by excelling at a series of them, by being the ones that escaped rejection. Our senses of self are forged by winning; it’s why these competitions that don’t need to be so difficult have so much senseless gravity attached to them. We confuse selectivity with value because that’s always been what makes us—and Harvard—what...
...Even as we mourn this senseless, maniacal loss, it’s important that we remember that thousands of people are killed without [us] ever taking notice,” he said...
Nine days ago, hijacked planes swandived into skyscrapers—the handiwork of terrorists, grim architects of hate. Apocalyptic blasts left a senseless slaughter in their wake, scarring the psyches of a generation. I saw a nation reeling with sadness and disbelief...
...huge and diverse coalition of individuals and groups, and that is what gives them their power. Yesterday’s massive rally on the Widener steps, where professors, students, workers and others shared their visions for how to heal the gaping wound left by the attacks without causing more senseless death, was meant to demonstrate the strong support within this community for an opening of dialogue about what our options are. The debates taking place so far have lacked balance and have treated the use of drastic military measures as inevitable, while relegating concerns for civil rights and civil liberties...