Yet I also sympathize with E. O. Wilson who, at the Aspen Environment Forum in June, argued that we should capture the pythons in the Everglades and allow the ecosystem to return to its admittedly idealized state, where foxes, rabbits, deer and a host of other vanishing life-forms may flourish.
I also sympathize with the more "social" objections.
Some current officials also sympathize with the effort, he suggests.
Many of them resent those who crossed the border illegally, but they also sympathize.
Some also sympathize with the brigade, whose fighters and their families have suffered terribly under Mr. Hussein.
Some of them also sympathize with the violent anti-American campaign of Mr. bin Laden.
I also sympathize with the point of view of people who have lived among these ruins for years, sometimes decades, and would happily see them all bulldozed tomorrow.
Polls indicate that most French people regard the National Front as racist, but a slim majority also sympathize with some of Le Pen's xenophobic views, known as lepenisme.
"I also sympathize with the person who had a house next to another house and all of a sudden has a house next to a church".
And modern readers can probably also sympathize with the young people in the Decameron who claim that they have a right, by reason of their age, to bed whomever they can.
I'm sympathetic to those who believe, as Obama did in the primaries, that it's basically unenforceable, and I also sympathize with freedom lovers who think it's a bit nanny-statish.
