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"If we have to cull the deer population, I cannot be opposed to that, but what I'm opposed to is suffering".
They cannot be opposed to change as such, for the chief source of change is capitalism itself and never more so than today.
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"One cannot both be a progressive and be opposed to pension reform".
You cannot call yourself a humanitarian and be opposed to GM crops today".
Two arguments can be opposed to this.
Hume offers it initially only to show that a passion cannot be opposed by or be contradictory to "truth and reason"; later (T 3.1.1.9), he repeats and expands it to argue that volitions and actions as well cannot be so.
Federer, still trading at 4-5 with Blue Square, is not only the best player in the world but the best since Pete Sampras in his prime and he cannot be opposed.
To win passage, Microsoft's standard must gain support from at least two-thirds of 37 countries on an information technology panel of the I.S.O. and I.E.C. called the Joint Technical Committee 1, and cannot be opposed by more than 25percentt of all countries casting ballots.
Epictetus does sometimes speak, conventionally for a Greek, of "gods" in the plural, but Zeus remains unquestionably supreme: he enjoys having some company, just as we do (3.13.4), but does not require assistance and cannot be opposed.
Contradiction to truth and reason, however, consists in "the disagreement of ideas, consider'd as copies, with those objects, which they represent" (ibid).. Therefore, a passion (or volition or action), not having this feature, cannot be opposed by truth and reason.
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