Is it a study of universal conflict?
Over the years, as it became Exhibit A for critics of shareholders' class action lawsuits, the law firm of Milberg Weiss often enjoyed the support of Democrats who called the suits an invaluable weapon in the universal conflict between big business and the little guy.
Just as music embodies the emotional tensions within the world in an abstracted and distanced manner, and thus affords a measure of tranquillity by presenting a softened, sonic image of the daily world of universal conflict, a measure of tranquillity also attends moral consciousness.
rQS is then the average of the non-zero (that is, informative) values contributing to it and can range from +1 (universal support) to -1 (universal conflict).
The ghostly prints have a different charge: suddenly Polynesia is no longer an Arcadian paradise untainted by Europe, but a site of more universal, unavoidable conflict and terror.
It wasn't universal — there were conflicts.
The idea that natural selection has endowed humans with a universal magnanimity, however, conflicts not only with common experience (so much for schadenfreude!) but also with the fact that natural selection usually favors the genes of those who outcompete their rivals.
Dogmatic skeptics about justified moral belief make a universal claim that conflicts with common sense, so they seem to have the burden of arguing for their claim.
Thus, mediation is the most ancient and most universal form of conflict solving.
So noble was their effort, apparently, that it ushered in two decades of universal peace: armed conflict among nations has subsided, and the world, in line with John Lennon's instructions, has lived as one.
