Then 9/11 happened, and uniformed officers began patrolling the airports wearing militarized gear, and I was pulled again and again into small smelly rooms, probed by rude hands and asked senseless questions by men exuding hatred of my kind that kind being a single female who is not white, speaks fast, travels alone, and therefore fits their vague all-purpose profile of a "suspicious person".
Confronted with senseless atrocity, the question that always burns in one's mind is "how could this happen?" And never has the question been more unfathomable than in trying to understand the Nazis' systematic slaughter of millions of Jews in what became known as the Holocaust.
Boas was against systematizing and thought it senseless to ask questions about the origins of totemism.
It questions the senseless killing of black people, but it in no way condones the killing of white people as an answer.
She questioned the phrase "senseless violence" — so often used to describe the problem of murder in what she calls "high-homicide enclaves" — and showed instead how murder is used to intimidate, send a message, retaliate.
She questioned the phrase "senseless violence"—so often used to describe the problem of murder in what she calls "high-homicide enclaves"—and showed instead how murder is used to intimidate, send a message, retaliate.
It touches on senseless killings, drug-infested communities, and questions the existence of God and the motives of governments.
We might also question the need for a senseless war in Iraq, with its high human and financial costs.
So many questions, but as with all senseless acts of violence, there is no logic worth comprehending, no "aha moment".
A "general proposition" is senseless prior to an inductive proof "because the question would only have made sense if a general method of decision had been known before the particular proof was discovered" (PG 402).
