The evils, however, are largely external, identifiable, and, with certain recommended changes in the social order, remediable.
Many age-related skin disorders previously viewed as inevitable accompaniments of advancing age are now known to be remediable.
He said: "The tribunal does not consider that Dr Osborne's actions are easily remediable.
Chairman of the tribunal Dr Nigel Callaghan said: "The tribunal does not consider that Dr Osborne's actions are easily remediable.
In the Vietnam section, Ellsberg segues into the "quagmire" position that dominated liberal thinking about the war in the mid-sixties, according to which the real (but perhaps remediable) problem was the corruption of the South Vietnamese government and MACV, the U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam.
"It was genocide, and it was relatively easily remediable through NATO action, or just letting the Bosnians arm themselves," he said.
Tragedy, we are often told, is dead: an impossibility in an age that believes all problems are socially remediable.
There may be other conditions present, however, that impair hearing and are remediable.
Soderbergh's apparent assumption is that the new technologies have, for the moment, outstripped creativity but that the situation is remediable.
"Take physic, pomp," Lear cries in the midst of the storm, admonishing himself and others who have been blind to remediable human misery, Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
We promote a self-fulfilling prophecy of a downward course and then throw up our hands and blame the ill person, or the illness itself, as not remediable.
