But to the consternation of traditional views, many found the identity of spirit with consciousness a troublesome idea.
When carried through successfully, however, it yields a "just definition"—a precise account of the troublesome idea's content.
Another reason to object to the term "species" is the difficulty in applying the already troublesome idea of a macrobial species to the microbial diversity of which most of the RNoL consists.
Recent reports of a scaled-back version of this alternative are even more troublesome -- the idea of creating a separate, parallel legal system to handle only the crime of sexual assault opens a "Pandora's box" of legal and Constitutional questions.
The brand's commercial has taken the idea of troublesome sulfates into prime time: "Even after 32 shampoos, I love how my color stays pure," Ms. Longoria Parker said.
Few making this argument, however, seem to realize the peculiar origins of the phrase "American exceptionalism" or the idea's troublesome implications for the study of history.
Even leaving aside the fact that most people with mood disorders are not creative geniuses, many writers find their creative talent psychologically troublesome, and even prize an idea of themselves as, in some sense, abnormal.
It's an example of one of the objections made to the idea of banning troublesome users or communities: they'll just go elsewhere, so why bother?
To set the matter straight, HuffPost Science reached out to Dr. Robert Sussman, an eminent physical anthropologist at Washington University in St . Louisand the author of The Myth of Race: The Troublesome Persistence of An Unscientific Idea.
Yes, they can be unfair and, yes, they exhume a reductive and potentially troublesome commitment to identities before ideas, which would have to be extrapolated, surely, to ethnic, religious, even working-class representation, given that poor, white males must hardly find their mirror image in the coalition's and Labour's rich, white ones.
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