But because the biological species concept remains epistemologically useful, some biologists and philosophers use it to defend a racial ontology that is "biologically informed but non-essentialist," one that is vague, non-discrete, and related to genetics, genealogy, geography, and phenotype (Sesardic 2010, 146).
Yet "the positive has outweighed the negative," he insists, "because many countries use it to defend themselves.
American evangelicals spearheaded the drive to end slavery.Yet the Devil can quote Scripture, too: many Americans used it to defend slavery and segregation.
The best we can hope for from politics is that we can use it to defend ourselves, not to "convert" the culture.
The first sword goes to a man without a hand to use it properly (and who doesn't want to use it to defend the family legacy back at Casterly Rock), a sign of the precarious position of the ruling class.
Even if a student with a gun can use it to defend against a mass murderer, it's hardly clear that anyone, including the armed student, is made safer.
The tenor of that message was echoed in remarks by one of the Libyan state channel's news anchors who waved a pistol during a broadcast and promised to use it to defend the station.
And several people who know him said that while his quick intellect and self-confidence might have sometimes come across as argumentative, he used it to defend the BBC.
The violence drew a passionate response from Mr. Barak, who used it to defend the plan for unilateral withdrawal of troops from Lebanon, which some fear will spark cross-border violence.
