That is a major flaw in the Irish law – it encourages outrage".
While liberal columnists like Paul Krugman ("Climate of Hate," Jan . 10 emphasize the current political environment that they contend encourages outrage and violence, conservatives, like David Brooks, point out that the suspect is mentally ill and answers mainly to the voices in his own head.
But it would be irresponsible to encourage or show outrage at a time like this.
It is not the worst or the biggest thing that has happened in the hearings; but it has a typically depressing whiff of pettiness, confusion and corruption.The critical trick for Mr Thompson is to produce just the right amount of public outrage to encourage real reform of the system.
Yet cutting without causing outrage, can encourage more cuts.
(The first belonged to the Braves, who briefly considered using their old "screaming Indian" logo on batting-practice caps before public outrage encouraged them to reconsider).
Rock has always mined comedy as a means for poking at sensitive topics, in some cases encouraging as much outrage as applause.
And instead of encouraging righteous indignation, the church often uses religion to quell rebellion and reasonable outrage.
The only target they could find for their faux outrage was Michelle Obama's campaign to encourage breastfeeding, an embarrassing right-wing misfire which suggests there may be Freudian overtones to their "nanny" outrage.
