"If someone was offended by our performance in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, I am ready to recognize that we committed an ethical mistake," Ms. Tolokonnikova told the judge in her handwritten statement.
"And given the intensive arrest efforts for the last two or three years, it's hard to believe that people are ready to recognize that every single case has a human angle".
When one of the leading distillers of big ideas comes up short, that's a sure sign that society, more generally, may be ready to recognize that what we don't know about causes and consequences of important events and trends is as important as what we do know.
However, they also seem ready to recognize that humans and other animals have a lot in common.
The past six years have conditioned us to such negative forecasts that our collective national psyche isn't ready to recognize that better times, far better times are upon us.
This suggests that physicians are not only ready to recognize that cost should play a role in allocating health care resources, but would rather participate in this sort of decision than not.
