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...every Bible passage one might find against homosexuality, I could find one hundred whose message is love. Love is the fundamental Christian commandment, to use Roberts' words, the primary "basic doctrine." Political persecution of homosexuals hardly adheres to this ideal...
...respected science fiction author, created a futuristic republic in which people had to join the military to be deemed citizens, and the concept of civil responsibility was a matter of great importance and controversy. This, juxtaposed with the fact that the race was at war with insects--the classically ideal example of a perfectly communal society--made for an intelligent scrutiny of the way society should be set up, while examining the effects of propaganda and extensive government control...
What I encountered in the first essay, "The Pursuit of the Ideal," was a magical world of thought that seemed to me wonderful but overly complex. After all, I had not even heard of Kant, much less been able to name-drop The Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals in section. Yet despite all the references to Herder, Plato, Machiavelli and Voltaire, I detected some resonance in this history of ideas. What "a priori" meant I did not know, but the basic themes I understood. Berlin was saying that theories were wonderful stuff, great to think about and even more...
...assimilation of ideas to personality. Unlike God, we cannot trust diplomats to interact with every individual in the same way. We cannot know that they will be steady over time or that they will not be moody. In other words, we cannot trust that they will be ideal representatives of the ideals of our state...
Unfortunately, after a season plagued by a series of "almosts" and "could've beens," the Crimson was unable to make its ideal farewell statement...