Possession
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For weeks the Bush administration kept the report on abuses in Iraqi prisons from the American people by pressuring CBS not to air the photographs in its
possession.
It passed into the
possession
of the Mughal Empire that established itself in Delhi in the sixteenth century.
The world now awaits Pakistan's decision whether or not to test the bombs already reported to be in its
possession.
The world is moving toward a single standard, and the question is whether that standard will be
possession
of nuclear weapons or renunciation of them.
The open society is based on the idea that nobody is in
possession
of the ultimate truth, and that to live together in peace we must respect minorities and minority opinions.
A majority of Americans consider
possession
of such weapons a basic right, defined and codified by the Second Amendment to the US Constitution.
Two treaties in the 1970s prohibited the production and stockpiling of such weapons, creating a cost not only for their use, but also for their very
possession.
Normative taboos may also become relevant in the cyber realm, though here the difference between a weapon and a non-weapon depends on intent, and it would be difficult to forbid – and impossible to prohibit reliably – the design, possession, or even implantation for espionage of particular computer programs.
Even Japan – the only country to have experienced a nuclear attack firsthand – seems indifferent to China’s
possession
of nuclear weapons, as it assumes an assertive posture toward its increasingly powerful neighbor.
Because these ideologies’ claim to be in
possession
of the ultimate truth is bound to be false, they can be imposed on society only through repression and compulsion.
Talk of a new, Europe-friendly constitution indicates that they might even be willing to give up what, along with the Deutschmark, was the old Federal Republic’s most prized possession: the Basic Law, arguably the world’s most successful constitution during the last half-century.
In one case, a document describing a plot directed against Christian minorities turned out to have been in police
possession
before the authorities claimed to have recovered it from a suspect.
Portugal’s decision in 2001 to decriminalize
possession
of illegal drugs led not only to more drug users in treatment (rather than in prison), but also a significant decrease in the number of drug users newly infected with HIV.
But nobody is in
possession
of the ultimate truth.
If one regards impartiality and attention to consequences as essential to morality, one could imagine countries accepting the morality of unequal
possession
of nuclear weapons if certain conditions were met.
The French turned out, en masse, to say that they did not want to see the Le Pen gang take
possession
of their regions.
A few years ago, under Saddam Hussein, an Iraqi could have his tongue cut out if he was found in
possession
of a satellite dish or used the Internet without government approval.
Under the proposal,
possession
of more than five grams of “yaba” – a methamphetamine-based drug targeted by the government’s crackdown – could be punishable by death.
The ferocity of the authorities’ anti-drug campaign, together with the extremely low threshold for yaba possession, means that even people who use drugs and low-level dealers could face execution.
They seem to believe that
possession
of nuclear weapons provides them with far wider room for strategic and tactical boldness.
The division of the euro could save the EU, provided that the periphery retains
possession
of the euro.
Japan's "Peace Constitution" supposedly bans
possession
of military forces.
By Roman times, the seas were open to all, with personal
possession
and partitioning prohibited.
Popper showed that totalitarian ideologies like communism and Nazism have a common element: they claim to be in
possession
of the ultimate truth.
Still, I believe the radical change of attitude required for the success of the open society is possible and will allow us to develop our potential better than a social system that claims to be in
possession
of ultimate truth.
The First Kashmir War lasted until 1948, at which point India took the issue to the United Nations Security Council, which resulted in a cease-fire that left India in
possession
of roughly two-thirds of the state.
We could even wish them immortal...”The second reason applies to the hard-working rich, the type of person who“devotes himself forever to the pursuit of wealth and greatness....With the most unrelenting industry he labors night and day....serves those whom he hates, and is obsequious to those whom he despises....[I]n the last dregs of life, his body wasted with toil and diseases, his mind galled and ruffled by the memory of a thousand injuries and disappointments....he begins at last to find that wealth and greatness are mere trinkets of frivolous utility....Power and riches....keep off the summer shower, not the winter storm, but leave him always as much, and sometimes more exposed than before, to anxiety, to fear, and to sorrow; to diseases, to danger, and to death...”In short, on the one hand, we don’t wish to disrupt the perfect felicity of the lifestyles of the rich and famous; on the other hand, we don’t wish to add to the burdens of those who have spent their most precious
possession
– their time and energy – pursuing baubles.
After all, the mere
possession
of nuclear weapons, even if aimed at each other, does not turn countries into enemies.
Her victory came on the politics of resentment, and her
possession
of a name that remains magical with India's rural and urban poor.
But this presupposes that the
possession
of such data does indeed imply a competitive advantage, and that a closed operating model is financially sustainable.
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