"It's a really terrible practice and it needs to stop.
"This is a problem that we know is going on here in New York City, and we in the Council have waited for the federal government and the state government to take action to meaningfully regulate and bring to an end this terrible practice," Mr. Miller told his colleagues before the vote.
Among Mr. Appiah's insights is that excellent arguments are not enough to stop a terrible cultural practice.
Chrysler used to build so many unordered-by-dealers cars that it had to put them in giant parking lots around Detroit, a terrible business practice.
"The high number of missing girls," Terrasanta writes, "and the repeating identical operating patterns have convinced lawyers, activists and priests -- long engaged in the battle against the terrible practice -- that there is an organized network behind the kidnappings.
If the terrible practice of gang glorification and exploitation continues, a can of worms will be opened that will take a war to close.
I believe legacy admissions are generally terrible practice – but, viewed counter-intuitively, they might actually be a good thing for society at large.
