But that s that.

Indeed, Kouchner s appointment is likely to demonstrate just how vain a hope humanitarian intervention always was.

Some may look to unpopular and unjust foreign adventures in Iraq as examples of the futility of lawful political action.

Already, issues like climate change and energy supply demonstrate the futility of isolated national action and the critical importance of both deepening and enlarging the EU.

In this book, Beccaria aimed to demonstrate not only the injustice, but even the futility from the point of view of social welfare, of torture and the death penalty.

Slobodan Milosevic cheated justice, and by doing so demonstrated the futility of attempting to deal with war crimes and crimes against humanity through international prosecutions.

Because doodling is so universally accessible and it is not intimidating as an art form, it can be leveraged as a portal through which we move people into higher levels of visual literacy.

And some of them would say something else. They would say, No, you know, this is a celebration of female specialness, it helps build that and it's a result of the fact that and this is arguably a sophisticated psychological view that male lust is not to be trusted.

From the earliest times, man made out a claim of dominance of humanity alongside radical pessimism because of the frailty and brevity of human life (In the Hebrew Bible, for example, dominion of man is promised in Genesis 1 28, but the author of Ecclesiastes bewails the vanity of all human effort).

You construct monuments on every hill in vain ,

Erect palaces ( thinking ) that you will live for ever ,

And whenever you apply force become tyrannical .

What ! You build a structure on every height , to laugh at the passers by ?

And prefer strong palaces , that perhaps you may live for ever ?

And when you apprehend someone , you seize him mercilessly ?

What , do you build on every prominence a sign , sporting ,

and do you take to you castles , haply to dwell forever ?

When you assault , you assault like tyrants !

Build ye on every eminence a landmark in vanity ?

And take ye for yourselves castles that haply ye may abide .

And when ye seize , ye seize like unto tyrants .

Do you build high palaces on every high place , while you do not live in them ?

And do you get for yourselves palaces ( fine buildings ) as if you will live therein for ever .

And when you seize , seize you as tyrants ?

Do you build a monument on every height for vanity 's sake ?

And you set up fortresses , hoping to live forever ?

And when you strike , you strike mercilessly ?

What , you build a monument on every hill merely for fun

and erect huge palaces as though you will live for ever ,

and when you strike you strike like tyrants ?

Build ye on every high place a monument for vain delight ?

And seek ye out strongholds , that haply ye may last for ever ?

And if ye seize by force , seize ye as tyrants ?

Do you build futile a sign on every prominence ?

You set up structures as if you will be immortal ,

and when you seize someone for punishment , you seize him like tyrants .

Do you build over each high place a sign to amuse yourselves !

And do you take to yourselves underground reservoirs , in order to live for ever !

When you assault , you assault like tyrants .

Do you construct on every elevation a sign , amusing yourselves ,

And take for yourselves palaces and fortresses that you might abide eternally ?

And when you strike , you strike as tyrants .

Do you build useless monuments on every mountain

and raise strong mansions as if you were to live forever ?

When you attack , you attack as tyrants do .