“When you weigh civilian lives against military targets, what is the proper measure of military value?”
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Category: Human Rights
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Mormons on hate crime.
At last, the Mormon church comes out as not opposed to hate-crimes legislation.
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Confronting Professor Singer.
“To justify my hopes that Singer’s theoretical world — and its entirely logical extensions — won’t become real, I’ll invoke the muck and mess and undeniable reality of disabled lives well lived. That’s the best I can do.”
On Stephen C. Pelletiere’s contention that Saddam Hussein did not gas the Kurds in Halabja in 1988.
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Getting away with it.
How does the international community hold Saddam Hussein to account while seeking a humanitarian solution?
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The mind in chains.
“After long acquaintance with his role, a man grows into it so closely that he can no longer differentiate his true self from the self he simulates, so that even the most intimate of individuals speak to each other in Party slogans.”
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Apology for a tyrant.
Because human freedom is our ultimate goal, we should not pretend that the status quo — the “peace” that avoiding war with Iraq represents — is even remotely close to true peace or true justice.
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Who is for human rights?
Tyranny cannot effectively be challenged, nor can democracy be extended in the world, without American leadership.