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Intentionalists contend these deflationary accounts do not adequately distinguish self-deception from other sorts of motivated believing, cannot explain the peculiar selectivity associated with self-deception, and lack a compelling explanation for why, typically, self-deceivers are thought to be responsible and open to censure in many instances (See section 5.1 for this last item).
It might well be acceptable for me to spend an hour of my time explaining to passers-by why Manchester United is such a great football team but it would be completely inappropriate (and open to censure) to do the same thing when I am supposed to be giving a lecture on Thomas Hobbes.
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By rendering certain deceptive untruthful statements to others as non-lies, they make it permissible to act in a way that would otherwise be open to moral censure.
Precedent shows that the IDF is not immune from censure, and Israel is very open to self-examination, where warranted.
Or they could settle for censuring Mr. Monserrate, and leave themselves open to inevitable charges from some quarters that they have defined deviancy down.
While it's difficult to censure Vine for making use of a system that was open to her, it's harder to accommodate the exploitation of that choice, of that cultural and geographical privilege, for political ends.
President Abdurrahman Wahid held crisis talks with his inner circle one day after Parliament voted to censure him and opened the way for possible impeachment proceedings.
"We have to censure," Nadler said.
This is not to censure your concerns.
To censure them would show a lack of appreciation.
The Labour Party voted to censure the government's policy.
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