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And this is the reason why you should care, because sovereign ratings affect everyone.
And that is the reason why I believe they should be defined as public goods.
And this is the reason why we have developed what we call forward-looking indicators.
It's for that reason that many activists specifically avoid using the telephone.
So as I said before, governments that don't really have the resources to build their own tools will buy off-the-shelf surveillance software, and so for that reason, you see that the government of, say, Tunisia, might use the same software as the government of Germany.
And for some reason, I was one night drawing a vending machine, thinking of doing paintings of a vending machine.
Workers who have a reason to get home to care for their children or their family members are more focused, more efficient, more results-focused.
And the reason it isn't is because everybody's watching television or playing Angry Birds.
And the reason the British were coming was because they would not treat anybody with anything under age 16, which means they were consigning them to an adult body no matter what happened, even if they tested them well.
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein: Reason appears to have fallen on hard times: Popular culture plumbs new depths of dumbth and political discourse has become a race to the bottom.
Perhaps reason is overrated.
And wasn't it reason that gave us the means to despoil the planet and threaten our species with weapons of mass destruction?
My fellow psychologists have shown that we're led by our bodies and our emotions and use our puny powers of reason merely to rationalize our gut feelings after the fact.
Look, you're trying to persuade us of reason's impotence.
By the very act of trying to reason us into your position, you're conceding reason's potency.
Reason isn't up for grabs here.
SP: But can reason lead us in directions that are good or decent or moral?
After all, you pointed out that reason is just a means to an end, and the end depends on the reasoner's passions.
Reason can lay out a road map to peace and harmony if the reasoner wants peace and harmony, but it can also lay out a road map to conflict and strife if the reasoner delights in conflict and strife.
Can reason force the reasoner to want less cruelty and waste?
That's one of the passions that has to be present in order for reason to go to work, and it's obviously present in all of us.
RNG: Well, you didn't mention what might be one of our most effective better angels: reason.
Reason has muscle.
It's reason that provides the push to widen that circle of empathy.
SP: Are you saying that reason can actually change people's minds?
RNG: Here's a fascinating fact about us: Contradictions bother us, at least when we're forced to confront them, which is just another way of saying that we are susceptible to reason.
Since no reason can be alleged for the one that will not hold more strongly for the other, if all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves, as they must be if being subjected to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary will of men be the perfect condition of slavery?
RNG: That sort of co-option is all in the job description of reason.
Jeremy Bentham: The question is not, can they reason, nor can they talk, but can they suffer?
SP: Still, I have become convinced that reason is a better angel that deserves the greatest credit for the moral progress our species has enjoyed and that holds out the greatest hope for continuing moral progress in the future.
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