Word: unjustness
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There are problems with the secrecy provision. CRR hearings should be public (perhaps broadcast on WHRB); to publish minutes only at the conclusion of a hearing is to inform the community only when it is too late to influence a possibly unjust decision...
...against friendship in times of peace, but only a fool surrenders his weapons. Moral protest is our only weapon short of building takeovers, and to weaken it by giving our sanction to a CRR that remains essentially unjust is to invite more building takeovers in the next...
...understandable, Patterson acknowledges, that the development of an atomized, impersonal, alienating modern industrial society should stimulate the yearning for these historical forms of "community." Yet Patterson points out that in their nostalgia for these various types of group life, people today mistakenly ignore how unjust and internally coercive these ethnocentric societies have been. This misguided romanticism is particularly characteristic of the modern world's nationalistic zeal, Patterson contends--and he comes down particularly hard on the use of racial mysticism in Third World nationalist movements...
...evokes great protest. In Israel we also have a horrible system of laws, but when it is applied it doesn't even draw much protest. But, just as in this country I think honest people should fight for the abolishment of the law of conspiracy, which is first unjust and then unnecessary, we in Israel should fight the military laws...
...London School of Economies' Cranston, 57, a liberal political theorist, was much less sanguine about democracy's capacity to reconcile "the competing, conflicting wills" of its motley electorate. For him, democracy is merely "the least unjust" form of government, in which "the ignorance of the many is mitigated by professional experience of the politicians." Quinton, 52, an analytic philosopher from Oxford, adopted a still more gloomy view, calling government "a necessary evil" that "allows for tyranny by the collectivity over the individual." Quinton also mocked Adler's belief that all want to share in government by voting...