"I don't think we responded on defense," Scott said.
When we violate the inalienable rights of detainees, when we respond to attacks on our society by becoming, however slightly, more like those societies we abhor, the battle is already lost.
What reasons we respond to depends on how we "code" our environment, and this coding is itself highly dependent on environmental factors.
How do we respond to attacks on those most vulnerable?
For instance, if we ask ourselves, "Why did John switch the TV on?" And we respond, "To watch his favorite program," we are giving a teleological explanation.
What Sandusky and his enablers did was on them -- how we respond to help victims is on us.
If the marathon represents an idea about democracy, then so, too, does how we respond to an attack on it.
(Soren Kierkegaard) Kierkegaard reminds us that when we respond to the knock on the door, we are daring to encounter the unknown.
How we respond to the current cancer on the presidency depends on Comey and his willingness to reveal what the president told him and asked of him.
Because the nervous system runs from the brain into every organ of the body, what we believe can have a powerful effect on how we respond to illness.
