To the Editor: Re "Racial Discrimination in Stop-and-Frisk" (editorial, Aug. 13): You need to do some old-fashioned utilitarian calculations on the relative pleasures and pains associated with stop-and-frisk.
Sometimes this is because we underestimate how pleasurable future pleasures will be (relative to present pleasures) or overestimate how painful present pains are (relative to future pains); and sometimes this is because we just make simple mistakes of fact, thinking, for example, that bloodletting will ease the pain of gout.
To get over your consuming obsessions, Dr. Miller suggests exercises like comparing the relative costs and pleasures of the stuff you've bought.
Because standards of living were always subjective and relative, the demand for pleasure was insatiable.
The Rookie is written for a general audience, but I imagine relative experts would get pleasure out of it – not least that of schadenfreude.
Do our ape relatives have sex for pleasure or just procreation?
No one would decry the rise in girls' achievements, or take pleasure in the relative failure of boys.
Some opposition leaders had spoken of their pleasure at the relative freedoms accorded them during the electoral campaign, when they were allowed out on the trail and were even given a bit of access to the state media.
Surprisingly, singles did not show a hastening of death as it was the case for the majority of subgroups, which was similarly found by Byers et al. 19 For singles, Christmas might be a time to develop and renew social relations weakening a relative social isolation, 42 giving pleasure 43 and possibly culminating in a relief of cancer-related distress.
It looks and feels like an Indiana Jones movie, although the plot's more rickety than usual, the by-committee script's only serviceable, and the pleasures are modest relative to the expectations attached.
