Word: trivializing
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...important" interest. NATO is a vital interest. NATO is mixed up in Bosnia, so to defend our vital interest in NATO we have to fight in Bosnia. By this logic, it would make no difference whether Bosnia were an "important" interest or a "somewhat important" or an "utterly trivial" interest; we'd still have to send troops there because of our desire to preserve NATO. Bacon's explanation skips over the really hard question raised by Perry's comment: Is the defense of merely "important" interests worth the lives of American soldiers...
...then ask why women continue to divorce their husbands if the facts reveal an inevitable decline in their lives and the lives of their children. Kurz discovers that most women divorce out of necessity. Kurz claims, "Women do not divorce casually, or for trivial reasons...
When the legality of a simple majority referendum was questioned, politicians from both sides called it, dismissively, a "legal" issue as opposed to a "political" one. The niceties of the law were now seen as trivial, in a country obsessed with questions of federal-provincial jurisdiction and constitutional wrangling...
...says a human-rights worker who, revealingly, does not want to be named. "He is focusing on the basic principle, namely Palestinian independence. He's not interested in day-to-day problems, in infrastructure where we are starting from below zero. The few changes for the better have been trivial, cheap cosmetics. Paving a few roads, some improvement in education and public health--that's it." More trenchant complaints focus on corruption and nepotism in the Authority, the intimidating presence of several Palestinian security services and the lack of legal recourse. "No one feels free to talk," says Abdul-Hadi...
...original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads. "I was so angry," we say, "I couldn't think straight." Neither is it surprising that "people skills" are useful, which amounts to saying, it's good to be nice. "It's so true it's trivial," says Dr. Paul McHugh, director of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. But if it were that simple, the book would not be quite so interesting or its implications so controversial...