#cas

Typically, one of the arguments against the ethicalness of chemical castration is that it affects the very core of personhood, part of which is sexual drive and sexual fantasizing, by indirectly acting on the CNS (…) But, I think, an equally good argument could be that it interferes with basic homeostatic processes of the organism, regulated by the autonomic PNS and the endocrine system. Maybe the public tends to agree with chemical castration of sexual offenders, especially of pedophiles, not only because of the terrible acts they have committed, but also because there is a hidden prejudice that the “real or genuine person” of such offenders is a mind that has been captured by hormones, and that there is nothing wrong in “killing off these hormones and liberate the person from their vicious influence” (…) I say it is a prejudice because part of what it means to be a mentally healthy and well adapted individual involves a huge influence of the hormonal component, not only testosterone, but all other hormones, and, as a matter of fact, sexual offenders do not have abnormally high levels of free testosterone. ↗

— István Aranyosi

#hormones #neuroethics #pedophilia #pns #sex

Now we are showing to the world that this fighting against two terrorist groups was feasible and now we have an isolated case which doesn't mean that terrorism is alive, as it was before. ↗

— Alberto Fujimori

#alive #before #case #feasible #fighting

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#aspect #cases #convey #even #improbable

Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it. ↗

— Liam Gallagher

#classic #doing #everyone #going #i

Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast. ↗

— Joe Garagiola

#baseball #cast #drama #endless #ever-changing

Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a case of the present tense with no projecting into the future, particularly. ↗

— Art Garfunkel

#case #future #hammerstein #hit #i

Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels. ↗

— Bill Gates

#been #broadcast #channels #digital #everybody

All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#examples #footnotes #generalize #historian #historians

As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#consisted #convinced #day #france #gigantic

I personally believe that there's going to be a good case for the government preserving some type of guarantee to make sure that people have the ability to borrow to finance a house even in a very damaging recession. I think there's going to be a good case for that. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#believe #borrow #case #damaging #even