... rational individuals who act on 'visible', empirical evidence and not on illusions that demand submission ("dans un pays où les citoyens, devenus à peu près pareils, se voient tous de fort près, et n'apercevant dans aucun d'entre eux les signes d'un grandeur et d'une supériorité incontestables, sont sans cesse ramenés vers leur proper raison comme ... into their own hands. 'Legal equality', thus, makes citizens question authority and nurtures the dawning of "the love of political liberty" (the autonomy arisen from equality "les dispose à considerer d'un oeil mécontent...

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... with the problem of poverty which (e.g. famines in the sub-continent due to capitalist control of the modes and means of production) was the economic aspect of colonial capitalism. Polanyi quotes Owen in this regard: "unless legislative (decentralised) interference and direction counteracted these devastating forces, great and permanent evils would follow" . Thus, the evil of undesirable lock-in effects and Path ... ...

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... information or attempt to justify it in some way. Those who support capital punishment claim that such cases of innocent people being executed have never occurred. For instance, Edward Koch quotes Hugo Bedau in support of his claim that such cases are not true, saying "it is false sentimentality to argue that the death penalty should be abolished because of the ... ...

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... justify it in some way. Those who support capital punishment claim that there has never been such a case in which and innocent person was wrongfully executed. For instance, Edward Koch quotes Hugo Bedau in support of his claim that such cases are not true, saying "it is false sentimentality to argue that the death penalty should be abolished because of the ... ...

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