Policy should be 'generally pro-trade' but that country should avoid doing something 'really stupid'
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Maybe you clicked on the link to avoid doing something you really should be getting done right now.
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The ensuing mess may make it really hard for Congress to avoid doing something to stabilize the marketplaces.
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On the other hand, if you do have a chance to avoid doing something regrettable, then why not take it?
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From the beginning, my task was to avoid doing something encyclopedic, because transportation is such a huge part of our daily existence.
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Between the anxiety and the procrastibaking — baking you do to avoid doing something else — one can only imagine the 2018 threat is even worse.
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To avoid doing something you'll regret, you might have decided to look away from your investments until all those trade war headlines start to subside.
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At Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting Saturday, billionaire Warren Buffett said that the U.S. and China will avoid doing "something extremely foolish," amid a trade war between the two global powers, reports Reuters.
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Photo: GettyThe flu tends to be the leaky basement pipe of disease: It's easy enough to avoid doing something about it, right up until the point it completely bursts and ruins your month.
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"I'm certainly still hopeful we can avoid doing something silly like blowing ourselves up, or not listening to scientists when they're like, 'No seriously, shit's effed, and we need to stop this,'" Windsor said.
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In the few months that Spayd has been public editor, though, she's often ended up in a position like this: arguing that journalists should avoid doing something not because it's wrong but because it's somehow unseemly.
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These messages, Lawn said, shouldn't just tell people to avoid doing something, but rather try to reduce the overall harm that could come as a result, while understanding why people use these drugs in the first place.
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"Israeli leaders have used American pressure as an excuse to avoid doing something they really don't want to do but are being pressured to do by coalition members," said Daniel C. Kurtzer, a former American ambassador to Israel teaching at Princeton University.
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One possible reply to this argument is that only a naive interpretation of negative utilitarianism would endorse world destruction. The conclusion can be mitigated by pointing out the importance of cooperation between different value systems. There are good consequentialist reasons why one should be cooperative towards other value systems and it is particularly important to avoid doing something harmful to other value systems. The destruction of the world would strongly violate many other value systems and endorsing it would therefore be uncooperative.
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