Suspend your belief in moral absolutism for just a moment.
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And yet Brown steered away from the language of absolutism.
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Rarely does absolutism lead anywhere interesting in an ethical debate.
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Yeah, I have a problem with the absolutism of that.
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It's the absolutism and the occasional accompanying snobbery that's the issue.
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To many people, Torba's First Amendment absolutism is just a talking point.
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Parliament used impeachment to thwart monarchy's tendency toward absolutism, with mixed results.
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But Scalia's rhetoric and claimed absolutism have also had some less salutary effects.
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SF: Calling attention to such absolutism is exactly what I aim to do.
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Some people embrace moral absolutism in a desperate effort to find solid ground.
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In Spain, absolutism intensified with the discoveries of precious metals extracted from the colonies.
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Interestingly, the experiment found no genetic absolutism about the connection between dogs and humans.
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Mr Hun Sen's blunder, the official says, was to project his own absolutism onto America.
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" Kidman adds, "I wouldn't say it's absolutism, there's constant questioning — I'm a willful, feisty girl.
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Perhaps their sense of moral absolutism convinced them that some divine intervention would spare them.
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This goes beyond looking at the broad patterns of absolutism, negativity and pronouns already discussed.
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Lully served one of history's supreme autocrats, and exercised his own form of musical absolutism.
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And so the dangers of organized fascism mitigate the benefits of a free speech absolutism.
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And it is yet another example of the dangerous political absolutism sweeping the world's democracies.
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This kind of ideological absolutism may be good for politicians but it's bad for business.
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Privacy absolutism comes from a world of physical privacy where moral agents are the norm.
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Economic absolutism is making way for other considerations as antitrust thinking goes back to its roots.
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Some fret about the slide toward absolutism in central European countries ranging from Poland to Turkey.
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There's solid evidence to support their thesis, but their absolutism is its own monetary policy utopianism.
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But the complexity and competing interests of the organization he leads do not allow for moral absolutism.
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I'd be lying if I said I felt that absolutism of my youth now, because everything overlaps.
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"His life is proof that unapologetic right-wing politics do not necessarily bend toward absolutism," Gopnik wrote.
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Pius XII blamed "the exploitation of private capital" (as well as "state absolutism") for working people's "servitude".
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When free-speech absolutism was in vogue, Reddit's co-founders were as susceptible to its appeal as anyone.
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How much centralization of power, even absolutism, would you put up with to see that revolutionary program succeed?
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After all, religious absolutism is no match for the handshake, the shared meal, the neighborly conversation, the kiss.
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But I must say, it also gives rise to a kind of absolutism that makes governing very difficult.
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Alex Pareene writes that while "free speech absolutism is an eminently defensible position," this particular argument is flawed.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads ASPEN, Colorado — The contemporary art world appears to be split by ethnic absolutism.
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And given the old absolutism towards race—trapping Métis as either "Indian" or "white"—recovering lost heritage seems fair.
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Nor is there a sign that the religious absolutism Saudi Arabia shares with its enemy, Islamic State, will soften.
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The theory of moral absolutism states that some things (murder, slavery, child abuse) are undeniably wrong, regardless of circumstance.
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You think we can continue to do this without sliding into absolutism, and I think history shows we can't.
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But competitors like Ford have shied away from such absolutism by embracing hybrid vehicles as part of its autonomous strategy.
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It's an appealing pitch, one that seeks a middle ground between free speech absolutism and passive promotion of calls for violence.
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In the longer term, it could feed an inefficient absolutism rejecting any categorical exclusions because they are likely to be abused.
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But it is predicated on a necessary absolutism in gauging motive and may dangerously infringe on freedom of thought and expression.
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Serfdom and the rise of princely absolutism are rehabilitated by Mr Wilson as tools for consensus, without discussion of their frequent abuse.
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" He said the "Marseillaise" has probably helped unite the country since the attacks thanks to its lyrics "against tyranny, absolutism and intolerance.
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As for the future of the Times, they should pray that more of their readership shares Norton's view on the absolutism of redemption.
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McCarthy's moral absolutism appealed to the sanctimonious Bobby, who was an unapologetic supporter of McCarthy even after the latter's ignominious fall from grace.
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Despite Trump's absolutism on his pardoning power, as Vox's Sean Illing explained, constitutional scholars are divided on a president's ability to self-pardon.
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Some retreat into the absolutism of identity politics, arguing that men have no right to speak about feminism nor whites to speak about slavery.
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The movement's arguments are condescending and cynical—but that's not stopping its evangelists from spreading the gospel of food-name absolutism around the country.
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Both engage in pan-Islamic posturing, but sectarian absolutism is baked into the ideology and institutions of Iran's Islamic Republic and the Saudi monarchy.
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So this really threatens James's project of absolutism because the merchants upon whom power rested at the time were becoming more and more angry.
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Nor is the Second Amendment absolutism that Justice Thomas is calling for reflected in the way the Supreme Court interprets most other constitutional guarantees.
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In his time in Washington he has made himself famous for his refusal to wear a suitcoat with a necktie and for his conservative absolutism.
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His life is proof that unapologetic right-wing politics do not necessarily bend toward absolutism; they can also sometimes stiffen the spine of liberal democracy.
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But after 9/11, as he was emerging from a concentrated phase of formalist experimentation, he began to confront the rise of absolutism more directly.
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They argue that government of and by the people is flawed, and would prefer something more like the enlightened absolutism of Prussia under Frederick the Great.
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But after years of settlement building, a second intifada, instability throughout the region, and the rise of absolutism on both sides, a paralyzing mistrust took hold.
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This imperative has a kind of Petryn-like absolutism about it, and many "Star Trek" episodes revolve around the moral quandaries that arise as a result.
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Talk of deliberately putting technology beyond the reach of the law and/or government is what Fred Wilson calls "privacy absolutism," and it is dumb and counterproductive.
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After playing an excruciatingly long waiting game, he pulls a stunning about-face on his moral absolutism, quickly firing his general and arresting the governor of Michigan.
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The absolutism of his thundering tweets that disparaged the childhood vaccination schedule — itself meticulously vetted by experts who would, years later, be answerable to him — only hardened.
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As history demonstrates, the path of free speech absolutism in the context of social media will certainly take us somewhere, but it will not be where he hopes.
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It's the (Catholic) Steve Bannon, after all — with a tendency toward apocalyptic narratives and inclination to stoke absolutism — who seems a more likely architect of such a strategy.
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"May, who is due to stand down as prime minister next week, said that this "absolutism at home and abroad is the opposite of politics at its best.
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But that common good will never be achieved with the commitment to absolutism that he too often deploys — the blanket rejection of anything new that supplants the old.
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Also, the preference for Clinton over Bernie Sanders was a two-pronged assessment; it was a sophisticated weighing of comfort and of policy without an absolutism of good vs.
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And no Republican in a party that continues to veer dangerously toward fact-hostile absolutism has ever lost points with his base by calling the media biased against him.
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Large majorities say privately that they believe in the importance of compromise, reject the absolutism of the extreme wings of both parties and are not motivated by partisan loyalty.
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Debsian Socialism, "profoundly native in flavor," was rooted in the American Protestant tradition of "moral testimony," Howe wrote, which on occasion blended over into a kind of moral absolutism.
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But those who know Mr. Mulvaney say that his absolutism will make it difficult for him to make the compromises that are inevitably necessary in the policy-making process.
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Chris Baker, the author of "A History of Ayutthaya", writes that in the city's heyday "paternal kingship" gave way to "royal absolutism" and freedoms were "buried by slavery and monopoly".
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The region stands out in the developing world (and from much of Europe) for its long history of constitutionalism—the Spanish-American countries secured independence by rebelling against Bourbon absolutism.
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Like most of these new alternatives, it has cynically borrowed a cause — it calls itself a site that ''stands for free speech absolutism'' — that the more mainstream platforms borrowed first.
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He and his followers practiced (and aced) absolutism: You stood with or against them — there was no squishy in between — and America could be sorted neatly into villains and victims.
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Even though Trump campaigned against Tea Party absolutism on economics, his administration is, on a rank-and-file level, staffed with Tea Party absolutists and will probably default to those positions.
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If nothing else, this propagandistic image reminds viewers that the murderous violence unleashed by fascism is first subsidized by religious and ethnic absolutism and then advanced by counterfeit promises of progress.
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At almost 500 pages, 1668 is a brick of a book, and some readers might find the investigations into Descartes's philosophy and the absolutism of the French monarchy a bit academic.
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Donald Trump would enter the presidency with 88 district and 17 court of appeals vacancies to fill, along with a Supreme Court vacancy improbably procured and kept open by McConnell's obstructionist absolutism.
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But perhaps the most extreme example of that trend has been the issue of guns, where the party has ceded control to a gun lobby that has built its brand on absolutism.
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I'm intimately familiar with the right-wing tactic of framing anything less than free speech absolutism as "against free speech," in part because I practiced this tactic as a conservative college student.
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Huffman seems to take the free speech absolutism approach of letting sunlight disinfect the world of extremist viewpoints and bigotry, or to offload the work to subreddit admins and site moderators when applicable.
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Based on Objectivist cartoonist Steve Ditko's creations Mr. A and the Question, Rorschach is the purest expression of the fascist impulse Moore detected beneath the moral absolutism in the worldview undergirding superhero stories.
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But it is possible to imagine a conservative American party organized less around absolutism than, well, conservatism—one that could thus become more appealing to the American right, which currently despises its own party.
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"By structuring the bureau the way it has, Congress established an agency primed to ignore due process and abandon the rule of law in favor of bureaucratic fiat and administrative absolutism," Mr. Mulvaney said.
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NGOs' long-standing demand to place all of Bialowieza under full protection, as Belarus did with most of its part in 2012, faces opposition from local authorities that suspect eco-absolutism will curb growth.
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The emergence of mass shootings as the preferred source of mayhem for Islamic extremists has scrambled national security politics in America by putting Second Amendment absolutism in direct conflict with maximal toughness on terrorism.
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Combine absolutism with an Outsider Who Gets It -- and who is so slippery he can convincingly sell, "Whatever values you think you care about, those are my values, too" -- and we get a juggernaut.
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Most Sanders people are kind- and open-hearted, but there is a core that is corrupted by moral preening, an uncompromising absolutism and a paranoid unwillingness to play by the rules of civic life.
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This absolutism has its mirror image in the discriminatory, racist policies of the Federal Housing Administration that, between 1934 and 1968, made it next to impossible for residents of certain areas to obtain loans.
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By condemning and abandoning efforts to mitigate environmental harms, efforts that still allow industry to reap handsome profits, the Interior Department is showing a heedless absolutism that even my muggers likely could not have comprehended.
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Giorgio Bassani belongs to that extraordinary flowering of Italian Jewish writers, from Natalia Ginzburg to Primo Levi, who came of age under Fascism and thus grew up skeptical, allergic both to absolutism and pious rhetoric.
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A soft "absolutism" has now "replaced a democratic republic" in America, he writes, and "overpaid" bureaucrats, along with overregulation, were responsible for both the Great Depression of the 1930s and the great recession of 2008.
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The Prince's grandmother had been a close friend of Marie Antoinette; his father was Minister of State in Charles X's government and the author of the July Ordinances, whose absolutism set off the 1830 Revolution.
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But as is the case in the rest of the show, only Aziraphale and Crowley get real development as they navigate unsatisfying jobs, the absurdity of God's ineffable plan, and the problems caused by moral absolutism.
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I was not the first to leave the Democratic Party as a result of this moral absolutism, which appears dangerously similar to the dogmatic nature of religious zealotry, and I surely will not be the last.
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In ways that Louis Menand explored in his book " The Metaphysical Club ," it left a generation stripped of the appetite for more war-making and even (as Menand has argued) of any confidence in moral absolutism.
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The automatic default of the communications behemoths to absolutism in free speech has been replaced, it was said, by a finer-grained examination of cause and effect, and of what could reasonably be done to address concerns.
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Twitter, which once identified itself as "the free speech wing of the free speech party," has long listed toward the sort of free speech absolutism that says absolutely anything goes, so long as it isn't overtly criminal.
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It was partly in reaction to both the perceived and the real threat of gun control that the NRA kind of dug in, and that's where it turned toward this kind of absolutism about the Second Amendment.
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Two decades after the G.O.P. insisted, wrongly, that any tax increase on the rich would devastate the economy, the Republican tax agenda is still founded on a supply-side absolutism the '90s boom should have laid to rest.
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There lies, within this absolutism, an often very idealistic and sincere belief: if we simply allow all speech to compete in the free marketplace of ideas, then the best, most productive, and most truthful ideas will win out.
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Her Christmas speech's television debut acknowledges the monarchy's need for change, and amidst the Queen mother's protest that absolutism is slipping away, the two women later receive a crown of boxers, restaurant owners, policewomen, and other "ordinary" folk.
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"The third option, a patriotic Scottish way and free from the absolutism of the SNP and the do-nothing-ism of the (Conservatives) is now essential..." Brown, of the Labour Party, told a Festival Of Ideas in Kirkcaldy.
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"The new reality in Thailand is a move toward enhanced state absolutism, likely reflecting the preferences of the new sovereign, as implemented by the junta," said Paul Chambers, lecturer at Naresuan University in the Thai province of Phitsanulok.
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Christianity has, after all, had benign as well as malign consequences; and the murderousness of Nazism and Bolshevism surely had far more to do with both societies' history of absolutism than with those ideologies' prophetic and millenarian character.
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In reality, however, this is really about creating a kind of society and a kind of human nature that, governed by computers and algorithms, gives birth to a new kind of absolutism where we&aposre simply behaving organisms.
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He wouldn't comment on the Apple case specifically, but did say he is hoping the tech community and law enforcement can figure out a way to avoid the kind of absolutism that has characterized the debate between privacy and security advocates.
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In the last debate, she rattled off a laundry list of "litmus tests" that she would use to bend the Supreme Court to achieve a series of left-wing policy priorities ranging from pro-abortion absolutism to censoring political speech.
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While she said her words were not directed at anyone in particular, May used her last major speech as prime minister to set out why she felt her pragmatic approach to politics held more promise than what she called a tendency toward absolutism.
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Embraced a rising absolutism from a willingness to default on America's debt by not paying our bills, to a refusal to even meet, much less consider, a qualified nominee for the Supreme Court because he happened to be nominated by a Democratic president.
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When Attorney General Jeff Sessions cites Paul's epistle to the Romans to justify family separation, he not only revives an argument used to defend absolutism and slavery but also implies there is still a power above the law defined by the Constitution.
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This is a tribute to the political muscle of the National Rifle Association which embraces a Second Amendment absolutism that allows even the dangerous number of less than 1,000 Americans who are on the "no fly" list to legally purchase semi-automatic weapons.
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Like current comic-book movies, it claims a certain openness to ambiguity in a fallen world—you try to act righteously without even the reward of believing that it will do any good—while actually providing the comfort of whizbang moral absolutism.
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But even before that, the success of the Trump campaign, which replaced the ideological absolutism of, say, Ted Cruz or Paul Ryan with a weirdly technocratic promise to fix problems and deliver benefits, should have shown the exhaustion of purely ideological politics.
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That is already clear, as is the fact that Trump's embrace of Putin was not some weird whim but reflected a fundamental alignment of values around bigotry, racism, homophobia, anti-intellectualism, calculated religious absolutism, 21st-century big-data autocracy and hatred of the media.
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The path for liberalism is to treat Trump's white working-class supporters as persuadable rather than deplorable, and to marry the economic critique that the present G.O.P. non-agenda deserves to a diminished absolutism on social issues where the Democrats have marched left faster than the country.
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" Delton encouraged people to move beyond free speech inhibitions and, chillingly, that liberals have previously denied free speech to different groups: "American liberals were forced to sidestep First Amendment absolutism to combat a political foe… when New Deal liberals purged U.S. communists from American political life.
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"Tim Cook and lawyer Ted Olson have draped their argument in one of moral absolutism — but there is a hierarchy of moral reasoning they miss," said Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a senior associate dean for leadership studies at the Yale School of Management, referring to Apple's outside lawyer, Mr. Olson.
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It was a Wednesday night in early February, and Edmondson, a high school senior from West Palm Beach, Florida, was still "teetering" as she describes it, between Bernie Sanders—a candidate whose moral absolutism had captivated her generation—and Clinton, a candidate she admits she initially found disingenuous.
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The pope invoked Egypt's "glorious history" as an ancient cradle of civilization to argue on Friday that the delivery of a more peaceful future required a new civility that appreciated differences, resisted the violent path of close-minded absolutism and condemned extremists who camouflage terror in religious language.
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The easy availability of assault rifles in the United States helps enable those intent on mass murder, yet the Second Amendment absolutism of the National Rifle Association (NRA) has prevented common sense measures to curtail the sale of such weapons, which are designed to kill as many human beings as possible.
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One of the leaders of the English protest against absolutism in the 1760s — which took place in London at the same time that resistance was building in the American colonies — was John Wilkes, a radical Whig member of Parliament and shameless self-promoter who nonetheless gave voice to the unrest many Britons felt.
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One of his most original contributions was to locate many of Russia's woes in its failure to evolve beyond its status as a patrimonial state, a term he borrowed from the German sociologist Max Weber to characterize Russian absolutism, in which the czar not only ruled but also owned his domain and its inhabitants, nullifying the concepts of private property and individual freedom.
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A voice that reminds me that no matter what I do, or what the outcome of any human absolutism is, whether it's from politics, science, religion, or any ideology that most people use to try and make themselves feel content to the reality they create, that voice will always be there to remind me not to fall victim to any of their or my own human bias.
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These can be the musician's desire to connect with the tradition and audience of an earlier musician, and thereby to have his work accepted more quickly and earn some money; a producer's desire to add emotional variety to an artist's work; a singer's decision to use a different part of his voice or capture it differently through microphones; or a fully contrived aesthetic absolutism equating misery, integrity and obscurity — the Romantic era's interest-bearing gift to the future.
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Slashed the safety net wherever it could, cast dozens of votes to take away health insurance from ordinary Americans, embraced wild conspiracy theories like those surrounding Benghazi or my birth certificate, rejected science, rejected facts on things like climate change, embraced a rising absolutism from a willingness to default on America's debt by not paying our bills to a refusal to even meet much less consider a qualified nominee for the supreme court because he happened to be nominated by a Democratic president.
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