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...wishy-washiness might be excusable if Sterling did not commit the first sin of politics and TV: it's dull, with all of West Wing's sanctimony and none of its humor and character. On the other hand, CBS's Queens Supreme (Fridays, 10 p.m. E.T.), starring former West Wing regular Oliver Platt as a colorful, politically embattled judge, has humor and character to a fault. No lack of excitement here: in the three episodes sent to critics, Platt has a gun pointed at him three times and sings show tunes twice. All this action and some snappy dialogue bring...
...genetic influence, behavior is not determined by genetics, and humans always have a choice. From both the Old and the New Testament, Christians believe that there is a right and a wrong choice when it comes to homosexual behavior. Given this perspective, love the sinner but hate the sin makes perfect sense...
...thought the students and faculty of Harvard were educated, but I guess they are just greedy. Who knows if there is justice; maybe the Lord will send down a pestilence upon you for greed. Your editorial echoes the party line; it reeked of greed, and greed is a sin! May God have mercy on your souls...
There are two arguments for this kind of “sin tax”—a tax designed by the government not as the most efficient way to raise revenue but as a means to steer peoples’ behavior away from a practice of which it does not approve. The first argument is that such a tax protects people from their own bad choices. This argument, however, is far less persuasive than the point that such a tax accounts for the actual cost of smoking to society. Nevertheless, the economic effects of smoking are difficult...
Smoking is an unhealthy habit, and it is certainly in the interest of the government to make people aware of its long-term consequences. However, the paternalistic attitude implicit in the cigarette tax ought to make governments wary of imposing drastic increases in cigarette taxes, or any sin tax for that matter. In the event more local governments, including Boston’s, decide to raise cigarette taxes, they should guide their decision not by attempting to punish smokers, but by reasonable estimates of what will internalize the negative consumption externality of smoking...