When a U.S. drone kills innocent people in Pakistan,
national interests everywhere suffer.
An act of torture debases
both the victim and the torturer.
The real reason for torture
is not gaining information,
but asserting the dominance
of one group over another.
If power itself is not evil,
then its arrogance is.
The benefits that war and torture claim
are far smaller than their hidden costs.
This is true of our own arrogance,
and the arrogance of our enemies.
George Boole did not regard logic as a branch of
mathematics, but as the laws of rational thought. His wife brought
on his death by pouring buckets of water over him after he took to
bed from a fever induced by walking through the rain to give a
lecture wearing his wet clothes.
George Boole did not regard logic as a branch of mathematics, but as the laws of rational thought. His wife brought on his death by pouring buckets of water over him after he took to bed from a fever induced by walking through the rain to give a lecture wearing his wet clothes.
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