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But the idea that such interventions can become customary, that great powers (and only great powers have the resources to act effectively) will commit their troops to kill and die in endless wars of altruism is utopian in the worst sense of the term--it is utterly unrealizable.

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It was customary in her family to keep girls inside the homes.

And also important is talking to communities so that we change interpretations of religious or customary law, which is too often used to justify punishment and fuel stigma.

But fully two centuries before, the Enlightenment thinker Jeremy Bentham had exposed the indefensibility of customary practices such as the cruelty to animals.

Even though we tried to do all the right things, we still received our customary flood of video protests and angry emails and even a package that had to be scanned by security, but we have to remember people care intensely about this stuff, and it's because these products, this work, really, really matters to them.

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