When we abandon it, we abandon logic.
I wouldn't mind so much, but I've heard that abandoning logic in an attempt to prevent same-sex marriage leads to politicians comparing homosexuality with bestiality.
In this manner, VanDerWeff notes, "the episode abandons logic and reality and, for lack of a better word, transcends".
With both sides recently releasing their campaign salvos, the "no" side is going for the emotional jugular — so much so that it often seems to abandon logic altogether.
It's this decision to abandon logic and have actors play genders and especially races other than their own that threatens to both date Cloud Atlas, a film released just six years ago, and make it arguably timelier than ever.
In recent years, Yale University's Dan Kahan has lead an interdisciplinary team of scholars in what they call the Cultural Cognition Project, exploring why individuals often abandon logic when it comes to forming beliefs about contentious social, political and science issues: gun control, vaccine safety, climate change, fracking, biotechnology--there is a long list.
She ultimately abandoned the logic she set out in "Illness as a Metaphor" (1978), which prescribed a cool acceptance of medical fact.
Abroad, the US has abandoned all logic, all signs of joined-up diplomacy, and abandoned the last vestiges of pretensions to be an honest broker in the Middle East.
Even Saudi Arabia, a brutal and repressive state, has abandoned the logic of the war on terror for a softer approach that blends law enforcement, prevention, rehabilitation and aftercare.
