Precautionary Absurdity

It's kind of ridiculous, right?

It's silly to be so emotional.

This isn't playing. This is undoing an absurdity.

It is ridiculous to argue that terrorism is inherent in Islam.

It would be ridiculous to claim that we know how we make consciousness in our brains, but we certainly can begin to approach the question, and we can begin to see the shape of a solution.

That's why I think it's silly to get too involved, because...

That diplomatic project is far from absurd.

I cannot of course believe in this absurd invisibility story

One slightly silly thing that's invisible is this story, which is invisible to you.

The debate about whether Turkey is European is absurd.

This kind of policy is ironic, absurd, and shortsighted all at once.

Yes, the girl falls, absurd to fall, even the earth with its compulsion to take unto itself all that falls must know that falling is absurd, yet the girl falling isn't myself, or she is myself, but a self I took of my own volition unto myself.

But of course, just in the last two years we see these unprecedented examples of human ineptitude.

Some reactions were sarcastic, some were eye opening, and some explaining the absurdity of this call.

Mr El Qott whose first name means Excellent and his last the cat , wrote an incredibly ridiculous article entitled 'Thank God you're well'.

It would be absurd if we had to suffer a real catastrophe again in order to understand what European integration has always been about.

The claim that the World Bank needs an American president to ensure that the US keeps donating money is ridiculous.

It would therefore be unrealistic at this stage to expect a tripartite process of concerted action by the State, the society and the business world that would be free of problems, tension and even crises.

And I'm telling you, I actually testified at the Senate about the absolute ludicrous idea that we would actually evacuate, and actually have three or four days' warning.

It would be ridiculous to claim that we know how we make consciousness in our brains, but we certainly can begin to approach the question, and we can begin to see the shape of a solution.

Yes, things could and should have been done better but to single out Fed governors for missing the coming catastrophe is ludicrous.

The claim that gun ownership ensures freedom is especially absurd, given that most of the world s vibrant democracies have long since cracked down on private gun ownership.

It is absurd that this country should not be pressured to release its political prisoners, but is allowed to go about the world demanding of other countries that they release theirs.

This time there could be NO mistake about it it was neither more nor less than a pig, and she felt that it would be quite absurd for her to carry it further.

The provisions against obscene publications in the criminal law are similar to the provisions in almost any other country, and it is absurd to say that the authorities are dictated to by the media.

We categorically reject that the Republic of Serbia is being accused of quot hostile acts and aggression quot against Kosovo and Metohija and find it absolutely absurd that a sovereign State can be confronted with a charge of attacking its own territory.

So, what I am going to do now is, I am going to show you what a timeline means and you will just kinda laugh, because it's kind of silly but I think it's important.

If I appoint an agent to manage my money, shouldn t I want to know how much he spends on political donations in my (alleged) interest? And wouldn t it be preposterous for any rule or regulation to prevent me from finding out?

Would a similar approach work for the gas in your oven? A century ago, the idea of decolonization sounded just as absurd.

Economic gurus at places like the World Bank have developed a ridiculously long list of steps that countries should take to raise their growth rates (the so called extended Washington Consensus ).

It is ludicrous to believe that US Secretary of State John Kerry s offhand comment about destroying Syria s chemical weapons stockpile was anything but a well choreographed opening for Russia to make its diplomatic play, thereby letting the US off the hook.

It is therefore absurd and totally unwarranted for Portugal to make accusations that the trial of Mr. Gusmao is a quot political trial quot and that it quot was fraught with the gravest irregularities and outrages quot , and that witnesses had been subjected to coercion and abuse.

With great fanfare (and generally favorable press coverage), the PRA announced that some banks do not have enough loss absorbing capital relative to target levels of equity that are ludicrously low.

Yes, the girl falls, absurd to fall, even the earth with its compulsion to take unto itself all that falls must know that falling is absurd, yet the girl falling isn't myself, or she is myself, but a self I took of my own volition unto myself.

Wearing a ridiculously expensive watch to proclaim that one has achieved an elevated social standing seems especially immoral for a public official in a country where a significant portion of the population still lives in real poverty.

In this context, the West s belief that it can channel assistance to certain elements of the opposition is absurd, as is the concept of non lethal aid, such as night vision goggles, medical equipment, and armor, given the conventionally lethal aid that is already pouring in from the Gulf states. The Guardianrecently reported that Jordan is accepting Saudi money to supply arms directly to Syrian rebels.

In the reservation that I was obliged to express on behalf of the delegation of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela at the fifty ninth session, I indicated that the procedure followed was so grotesque that it did not even allow us an opportunity to express an opinion in favour of the aspects of the draft document with which we agreed.

Violence turned everything to death and destruction, for such is the senselessness of that breach of the calm plenitude which accompanies the rule of law, the essential nature of violence being suddenly or gradually to alter the certainty which the law nurtures in human beings when this change does not take place through the normal mechanisms of the rule of law.

For centuries, Russia, Iran, and Turkey have been regional rivals, never allies. Europe s political blindness, however, seems to override this fact.

Now, in the latest plot turn in the Grand Guignol theater that Australian politics has become, could the political execution of Gillard by her panicky colleagues, and the resurrection of Rudd, lead to a revival in the fortunes of the world s oldest labor party?

A century ago, the idea of decolonization sounded just as absurd. Public awareness is as crucial now as it was decisive then.