In fact, we need more: life is about achieving a positive, not merely eliminating negatives.
On the one-hand they are saying we are removing much needed protections, not unnecessary regulations, while on the other hand they are calling repeal day just a stunt, which merely eliminates thousands of decades old redundant regulations which have little impact on the real world.
Their reason, it seems, is that there is a distinction between citing positive empirical evidence for a thesis and merely eliminating the contrary possibility by a priori methods.
Our pity for him, Williams explains, presupposes "that there is something special about his relation to this happening, something which cannot merely be eliminated by the consideration that it was not his fault".
In the case of a lorry driver who, through no fault of his own, runs over a child, Williams writes, "we feel sorry for the driver, but that sentiment co-exists with, indeed presupposes, that there is something special about his relation to this happening, something which cannot merely be eliminated by the consideration that it was not his fault" (1981, 43).
"These data indicate that benefits come not merely from eliminating neighboring groups but also from land grabs," says Harvard University primatologist Richard Wrangham, whose team has also observed killings apparently over land between two other groups at Kibale.
But when Mussina has pitched against the Yankees, Jeter has looked at videotape merely to eliminate one of many possibilities.
On first pass, it may be difficult to see how natural selection can ever lead to the evolution of new characteristics if its primary effect is merely to eliminate unfit traits.
