Word: unjustness
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...that the death penalty is not cost effective, that it has a high rate of error or that it does not deter crime. Each of these arguments is sound and can be supported with strong empirical evidence. Even so, we should disregard these arguments entirely because it is simply unjust for the state to execute its citizens. Our government does not have the authority to commit murder...
...prescription for improving the health of our political system primarily through media reform misses the point,” Jensen argues. “Media reform is crucial, but it has to be part of a larger social movement that addresses illegitimate structures of authority and unjust concentrations of power throughout the society, in private and public arenas.” Jensen worries that Rowse puts too much faith in journalism as both a concept and an institution...
...living wage is that it fundamentally misinterprets the proper role of universities, which is to promote learning and increase knowledge. Harvard does not exist to be an agent for social change, and it never has. While it is appropriate for students to question University policies that are obviously unjust, Harvard’s present wage structure does not fall into that category. Assuming that Harvard meets the requirements of legality and basic fairness, the administration’s highest priority should be to advance the academic ends for which Harvard was created...
...have not been identified. Determining the descendants of the slaves insured by Aetna, setting the proper amount of reparations, and fixing the relative levels of compensation each recipient should receive would be horrendously difficult, and the practical hurdles to such reparations would make any requirement of payment untenable and unjust...
...classmates with silliness. This attitude betrays a lack of intellectual engagement with the discourse of protest and institutional change. This behavior is unbecoming of a Harvard student. A decision not to support PSLM on intellectual or moral grounds is noble; a dismissal of their actions is both ignoble and unjust. It smacks of the same disgusting arrogance with which the University treats students involved in the presidential search to the living wage campaign. We can do better than to treat each other that...