Self determination was a basic right of all peoples and withholding it was a grave violation of international law.

An investment investment, after all, is just such a basic economic concept is nothing more nor less than a relationship between the present and the future, a shared present and a common future.

You realize that this poses a fundamental challenge to any theory of the brain, and especially to a theory that says that there is some reality that emerges out of this carpet, out of this particular carpet with a particular pattern.