We don't want pity or sympathy, we want to be able to resume productive lives without risking prosecution, suffering the rarity of Sativex or the lottery of arguing "necessity" defences in criminal procedures, costly both in financial and reputational terms.
The film may argue the necessity of a sweeping egalitarian revolution, but it also suggests its impossibility.
As a liberal I find it problematic and infuriating, but I'd still argue our necessity to be vigilant around human rights.
Indeed, the common position among most Western thinkers has been to argue the necessity for moral constraint as a precondition for freedom in all other aspects of life.
In the coming weeks, Butt will argue the necessity for reform to the Canadian Bar Association, highlighting alternative options for sexual assault complainants such as civil lawsuits, where the burden of proof is lower than the criminal justice system, or restorative justice.
In this essay I argue the necessity for such a re-wilding strategy and provide examples in unmanaged forests and natural successions of the Mediterranean basin, temperate Europe and floodplains with regard to the ecological benefits that they may bring to in terms of wildlife and social values.
Many empiricists stand ready to argue that "necessity resides in the way we talk about things, not in the things we talk about" (Quine 1966, p. 174).
The supporters of a performativity education system would argue its necessity to close the implementation gap (Hargreaves & Fullan, 1992) because an improvement in academic scores of students, especially those from poorer backgrounds, is a big achievement for government policies intended to benefit both the society as well as the individual.
If DeChristopher had been allowed to present this defense, bring forward experts to testify and his lawyers allowed to argue the necessity defense; and just one juror agreed DeChristopher would not have been found guilty.
The Mouse House reportedly spent upwards of $250 million bringing The Lone Ranger to the screen, and while we can certainly argue the necessity of dropping the GDP of a small country on a project like this, there's no denying that we see it all on the screen, whether the opening act train crash sequence or the third act...uh, train crash sequence.
No one argues the necessity of removing the asbestos, which riddled the building.
