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...Jacoby (Opinion, Nov. 4): What is the justification for an individual's existence? The idea of justification appears in various places in Jacoby's op-ed, with millionaires justifying their existence through "corpulent, guilt-ridden" donations to charities, and in his claim that one's "career choice is only valid if you can justify it" to a "Tibetan political prisoner...
...understandable and skillfully interlaced with the personal stories behind the scientific discoveries that he discusses. But when, toward the end of the book, Aczel turns to statistics to argue in favor of the existence of extraterrestrial life, he moves onto shaky ground. The statistical constructs that Aczel presents are valid, but the conclusions that he makes based on those constructs are much more speculative than Aczel admits...
...determines whether we are spending our working lives doing the (individually defined) right thing. Explain what you have chosen to do with your working life to a victim of the world's problems--a malnourished Angolan girl, a homeless Bolivian man, a Tibetan political prisoner. Your career choice is valid only if you can justify it to that person in good conscience...
Another skeptic concern with the increasing popularity of outer-world programs is that the next generation of policy-makers will be unable to sort the misinformation from the valid...
...said, for instance, that Near Earth Objects are a valid concern because of the damage they can cause if they crash into earth...