Fic Rec and Essay: Pushdragon's "Reliquary"

...self-pitying solitude. Rather like his son. Draco is another perfectly sketched canon character. Of everyone, he is by far the least romantic. Following the end of the war and his mother’s violent retributive death, Draco fled both England and his magical heritage in an effort to save his own skin. Lucius’ rising fortune and influence is the only thing that draws him back, and one gets the sense...

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on RESENTMENT, VENGEANCE and the notion of JUSTICE

... to vendettas or blood feuds. It seems to me that this is not the nature of vengeance so much as it is its distortion. Kant to more contemporary Robert Nozick make their distinctions. Justice or retributive justice is a matter of reason. Where as vengeance is an emotion. Justice is an abstract scheme. A theory that gets imposed on human life. Justice begins with the heart, with certain attitudes ...

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There's Nothing Funny About Prison Rape

... and large, we seem to find more humor than outrage in these crimes. In part, this simply reflects the nature of our criminal justice system, which has become decreasingly rehabilitative and increasingly retributive. In the 1970s, as economist Glenn Loury has written, "the corrections system was commonly seen as a way to prepare offenders to rejoin society. Since then, the focus has shifted from ...

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Tre di Tre (D)istruzione

... un sistema adeguato di sovvenzioni a studenti meritevoli in stato di necessità". Per spingere i docenti a lavorare "meglio" dovrebbe essere eliminato "ogni automatismo nelle progressioni retributive e di carriera degli insegnanti". Bisognerebbe liberalizzare progressivamente la professione docente "attraverso la chiamata nominativa da parte delle autonomie scolastiche su liste di idonei, con un ...

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Lebezniatnikov - The Peril of Liberty

...[13] David Walker advocates redemption as a form of social justice, but therein lies a specific danger. [14] Redemption, whether through overt violence or through a retributive system designed to exact revenge, only shifts inequality in a different direction. Instead, past grievances should be addressed through leveling the playing field immediately. Shklar stresses that ...

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Deleted Scenes - Kara-Centric reviews.

...own issues to the point where he can’t begin to empathize with her. And inadvertently, he gives her a hard push toward Lee here. One of the next deleted scenes is of Kara listening to Lee’s plan for retributive genocide and getting really turned on. ;) Okay, that’s possibly a reach, but I do think that Sam is saying that he wants Kara and he can’t deal with Starbuck, and … Starbuck & Apollo. So it...

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suck my dick and fuck the police

...people that assume so much about me then spread it around or steal it from me, no i didnt get arrested or anything that's not why i'm saying fuck the police, i just seriously hate the police mechanism, the retributive justice this criminal justice or so they call it is or has become or always will be. ill say it once i'll say it again i am a primitive anarchist and i believe in a world kind of in ...

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Probably Algorithmically True

...So, we tin can't in reality compute D. But tin we pick up it? Moreprecisely, lavatory we dependably memorize computable approximations to D ? The marked resolution is "yes, D is retributive additional classificationfunction". Take our popular year of (say) neuralnetworks , which turnout 0 or 1 for apiece (real-valued) distributor point on duty the unitinterval. Now mother haphazard sentences of L ...

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