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As Jared Diamond and others have shown us, this is how civilizations commit suicide, by slamming their foot on the accelerator at the exact moment when they should be putting on the brakes.
So you have a little bit more thought before you commit to combat.
And a couple of weeks later when Zacarias Moussaoui was indicted on six counts of conspiracy to commit terrorism, and the U.S. government called for a death penalty for him, if convicted, my husband and I spoke out in opposition to that, publicly.
EA: Estimates of how many innocent people are locked up range between one and four percent, which maybe doesn't sound like a lot, except that it amounts to around 87,000 people: mothers, fathers, sons locked up, often for decades, for crimes they did not commit.
And perhaps even more impressive is that if people take our training programs over, let's say, eight weeks, and they fully commit to doing the daily mindfulness exercises that allow them to learn how to be in the present moment, well, they actually get better over time, even though they're in high stress.
In some cases, religion drives many Africans to extraordinary length: to attack other human beings, to commit ritual killing, targeting those living with albinism, those with a humpback, and as I recently learned, those with a bald head.
We commit terrible crimes, and we smile at the delight in getting away with it.
It began with a small group of people who decided they would commit.
And these were the things she thought we needed to commit to.
The other way of thinking about it is not, do people deserve to die for the crimes they commit, but do we deserve to kill?
We have a hard time talking about race, and I believe it's because we are unwilling to commit ourselves to a process of truth and reconciliation.
And most importantly, commit you to a lifetime of anticoagulation therapy.
Research is clear that holding somebody in jail makes you significantly more likely to commit a crime when you get out than if you had been free all along.
We're going to devote enormous social resources to punishing the people who commit those crimes, and that's appropriate because we should punish people who do bad things.
You see, you can now commit more crime as well.
If we have this collected data, and this connected crowd, based upon our experience of campaigning and getting world leaders to commit, I think world leaders will commit to most of the crowdsourced recommendations.
Because you simply won't commit that kind of energy and time if you don't really care.
They want to commit suicide or kill somebody else.
Now the problem with all of this, getting older, is that people over 65 are the most likely people to commit suicide.
I can only have faith in it, commit myself, that is, to the idea of it, and I do this precisely because of the temptation to throw up my hands in resignation and retreat into silence.
And he'd commit himself fully to the hard and thorny process of making peace.
My mother had to do a lot of explaining, telling people that her son did not commit a premeditated arson.
Does she want to commit suicide?
At the worst extreme, many traditional societies get rid of their elderly in one of four increasingly direct ways: by neglecting their elderly and not feeding or cleaning them until they die, or by abandoning them when the group moves, or by encouraging older people to commit suicide, or by killing older people.
Now how many previous offenses do you think they have on average managed to commit?
They've got to have a year to commit their crimes, six months to get through the court system, and then they would be compared to a group taken from the police national computer, as similar as possible, and we would get paid providing we achieved a hurdle rate of 10-percent reduction, for every conviction event that didn't happen.
It's a strange poverty of the English language, and indeed of many other languages, that we use this same word, depression, to describe how a kid feels when it rains on his birthday, and to describe how somebody feels the minute before they commit suicide.
First, whether or not someone will commit a new crime if they're released.
Second, for the first time, and I think this is incredibly important, we can predict whether someone will commit an act of violence if they're released.
Together, they served 89 years for murders that they didn't commit; murders that they falsely confessed to committing when they were teenagers.
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