And the primary-election system means that they have every incentive to appeal to the most partisan people in their districts.In his farewell address in 1796, George Washington took aim at the dangers of "faction"—arguing that it distracts attention from important questions, weakens the government and "agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms".
Many liberal (and feminist) objections to censorship of pornography point to the practical costs and dangers of censorship, arguing that even if pornography does cause some harm to others, the risks involved in censoring it are too great.
In Against Security, the New York University sociologist Harvey Molotch focuses on "airports, subways, and other sites of ambiguous danger," arguing that in the long run, treating strangers with more kindness and less suspicion, rather than assuming the worst of every traveller, would actually increase security.
Books were in danger, they argued, of becoming like music had become under iTunes; worth very little.
Prof. Gerry Curtis of Columbia has an important point about the danger of that: He argues that the government should be doing more to remind urbanites of the destruction in Tohoku, because that is the only way that people will make the hard, expensive choices to do a substantial re-investment — the kind that could help Japan overall.
The danger of speciesism, Singer argues, is that speciesism is no different than racism or sexism, which were based on the same belief in the lower moral standing of the subject according to what were believed to be at the time identifiable differences.
The only way out of the danger, he argues, is to allow smaller groups of countries to forge ahead with deeper integration and their own forms of co-operation, if they so desire.It is the privilege of old men to warn the next generation of the pitfalls that lie ahead.
In Purity and Danger, Mary Douglas argues that the concept of dirt is culturally specific and simply any matter considered out of place by a given society.
In the absence of such labels, the field is in danger of simultaneously discussing and arguing about the properties of apples (prospective memory proper), oranges (vigilance), and occasionally, of bananas (habitual prospective memory).
And there is a danger, argues David Llewellyn of Loughborough University, that banks, rating agencies, insurers and even regulators may fall victim to a collective myopia that blinds them to the true risks of what is being packaged and distributed.
