Word: valuelessness
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...question is, does Harvey endorse the extremely broad prohibitions on "recreational" sexual activity of Finnis, Grisez and company. For them, all non-procreative, recreational sex amounts to the mere instrumentalization of bodies for mutual use and pleasure, all are the moral equivalent of mutual masturbation: not only valueless but distractions from real human goods. With a surprising broadmindedness, the contemporary natural lawyers who have written extensively on sexuality regard homosexual acts as the moral equivalent of contracepted sex in marriage. Does Harvey agree...
That is no joke. The collapse of the ruble has triggered an urgent debate over how to stabilize the currency. Without sound money, experts say, the drive to bring capitalism to the former Soviet republics could come to a halt. "For people to have a currency that is valueless gives a sense of outrage that is very difficult for any government to deal with," says Scott Pardee, chairman of U.S. operations for the Yamaichi International securities firm. Concurs economist Steve Hanke of Johns Hopkins University: "An economy with dysfunctional money is like an engine that...
Coles said the country had "lost its moral foundation" and had become "a valueless society...without a purpose...
...take it down not because I no longer believe that we should all make an effort to ban the use of such valueless expression...
HARVARD should take a lesson from John Stuart Mill. If we do not listen to abhorrent ideas, our own are valueless. They become totems that we carry around simply because everyone does. To quote a popular cliche, the essence of intellectual progress is the clash of ideas: when there is only one "correct" idea, everything stagnates in a bath of tepid, kneejerk liberalism...