"He had done it time and time again, taking advantage of people of good will, saying, 'I'm psychotic, take me to the hospital.' " Defense lawyers have argued that the very act of killing Ms. Webdale was insane, because it lacked reason or justification.
It seems a bit rich, however, coming from a man who as recently as 2009 suggested that Islam lacked reason, making the religion inherently prone to violence.
The argument lacked reason, sure, but it was brimming with the broken bones, missing limbs, and body bags that give politics flavor when substance is in short supply.
Serge Scherbatskoy Arcata, Calif., Oct. 4, 2009 To the Editor: I have been a strict vegetarian most of my life, and, as such, I have never lacked reasons — ethical, economic and health-related — to continue this lifestyle.
Because it lacks reason, deriving instead from dogma and orders from above.
But the three commissioners added that they were open to Mr. Rosch's idea, saying they wanted "to avoid any possible public misimpression that the commission obtains settlements when it lacks reason to believe that the alleged conduct occurred".
identified matter with Poverty (penia that is informed by Abundance (poros), giving a cosmological twist in Plato's myth in the Symposium (203B f .. Since matter is lacking reason, Numenius considers it in itself disordered (ataktos) and unknowable (fr. 4.4 5).
Yet the other animals, though they lack reason, live together peacefully according to their species; only humans, who most greatly need concord to preserve themselves, do not manage to live together peacefully.
"Animals, despite the fact that they lack reason and understanding, do not make colors the cause of conflict.
Are they really, like you said, these "humans who lack reason" because they haven't been disciplined into adulthood, because they haven't yet been broken down?
He declared: "at this point we're pretty much living in an irrational time", full of human suffering and lacking reason or logic.
