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In a front-page comment in Corriere , veteran columnist Arrigo Levi marveled at the power of something as weak as one man's voice to affect the governor's decision, and he added that now "perhaps America and other countries still favoring the death penalty will be induced to reflect on the words and the reasoning of the pope."
Gaines, “Foundations of Fuzzy Reasoning,” in M.M.
The report also suggests, with no clear reasoning behind it, that longer lives will somehow undermine human determination to contribute as much as one can during a lifetime.
Why would we want to shield jurors from perfectly good reasoning just because it happens to arise not in the courtroom but in an editorial or over the dinner table?
But that would be precisely the sort of two-plus-two-equals-five reasoning that made the FCC story Page 1 news to begin with.