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The reaction of commentators and politicians to the riots has been predictable: voices from the right pontificating views unlevened by any experience whatsoever of the people whom they rightly denigrate; and voices from the left seeking to justify an outbreak of wanton criminality as an almost reasoned response to the current administration's "scorched earth for the poor" policies.
There is no 'divine plan' which justifies such wanton suffering, and so the response of a humanist is to work to relieve this suffering.
In June the North denounced a new Hollywood film about a bid to assassinate its leader Kim Jong-un as a "wanton act of terror" and warned of a "merciless response" unless the US government banned the film.
The wanton behavior of Fortuna demands an aggressive, even violent response, lest she take advantage of those men who are too retiring or "effeminate" to dominate her.
Upon re-entering Fredericksburg, Va., after it had been sacked by the Union Army, General Stonewall Jackson made that famous response to an aide who wondered aloud what was to be done about such wanton destruction.
Then there is wanton destruction.
The wanton, wicked waste".
Anyone for wanton soup?
It's also wanton.
This ruthlessness was not mere wanton cruelty.
Their anger at wanton terrorist attacks is understandable.
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