Word: acceptable
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...Theory of Justice was created specifically for democratic society. "The difference principle recognizes the need for inequalities in the social and economic order," writes Rawls. The theory fully accepts the inequalities necessary to drive capitalism. It is irresponsible of Ec 10 to insinuate that Rawlsian justice would accept a system of levelling equality so foreign to its own presuppositions...
...when Meselson and his colleagues announced their findings, the government refused to accept them, and the Reagan Administration continued to classify the Soviet Union as a suspected producer of biological toxins, the professor said...
REFERRING to intifada statistics for shock value, out of historical context, would be irresponsible--if only the context were different. In the past, Israeli Jews might have been able to justify the occupation by referring to Palestinian refusal to accept a partition of Palestine and to Israeli military vulnerability. But we can no longer fixate upon the past by refusing to acknowledge a new historical reality, one in which the Palestinians are willing to live in a state alongside Israel and Israel can negotiate from a position of power. The Palestinian National Council has declared the former; numerous Israeli military...
...peace process has not yet begun. The Palestinians have accepted the Jewish state. Now it's the Israeli's turn to accept a Palestinian state. Until the entire Israeli government indicates a willingness to do so, we must oppose the occupation. We can do this by supporting peace movements within Israel--and by crying out against each and every injustice of the two-year intifada...
...this explanation begs the question, then why try to join a national fraternity? Why not simply form your own group on campus and accept women if you are so eager to do so? Opportunities for social networking and help from a national office may be attractive, but they cannot be the reason for subverting the interests of the campus or the group's members...