Can't you overcome your revulsion?

Since 2000, the world has experienced many crises and witnessed many terrible instances of anger, sadness and revulsion.

At the same time, given the justifiable revulsion terrorism provokes, we must guard against attributing such acts to any religion or civilization.

24. The sexual abuse and murder of a small boy near the city of Naples in 1997 caused revulsion and outrage in Italy.

6. The phenomenon of crime has evoked a profound feeling of revulsion and indignation on the part of society as a whole, which the Mission fully shares.

Our revulsion at the horror and misery caused by these weapons is strengthened by many years of United Nations peace keeping and the experiences of Irish development workers in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

It is this tolerance of cultural and religious diversity that could be endangered if the Sunni inspired revolt sweeps the country. And that is why Syria simultaneously generates revulsion at the regime s atrocities and fear of what might follow if the regime is defeated.

Of course, revulsion for liberal economies and global markets is not confined to Germany. A similar sentiment formed one of the motives for the French and perhaps even the Dutch to reject the European Union s Constitutional Treaty, which some regarded as too Anglo Saxon in its economic liberalism.

108. In a pastoral letter dated 22 January the Catholic bishops expressed their deep revulsion at the treatment which was accorded to the bodies of the victims of the air accident of 8 January in the Ndolo market, and which scandalized even a people accustomed to death and torture.

For once, Labor Day (the first Monday in September) was not the presidential race s demarcation point the overall themes had already been set. Revulsion at government and traditional politicians hit the presidential contest like a tornado in the summer, flattening the campaigns of some who were once seen as serious contenders.

At the same time, it is trying to create a situation that will, in effect, make it more difficult for the new president to achieve his policies in the region. News reports show that revulsion is spreading through the Arab world, where American and Israeli flags are burned side by side.

I had thought that after so much exposure, thousands of Americans would be holding vigils on Capitol Hill, that religious leaders would be asking God s forgiveness, and that a popular groundswell of revulsion, similar to the nineteenth century anti slavery movement, would emerge. To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, if torture is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

So, despite revulsion on the part of Germany and the European Central Bank at the idea of a bailout, Greece needs large official financial support this year at rates that are not unsustainable to prevent its current illiquidity from devolving immediately into insolvency. But official support will only kick the can down the road until next year.

And yet in the final years of his rule, his reputation plunged. Only in the last few months of his second presidential term, after he launched the second war in Chechnya in September 1999, did he and his lieutenants regain some legitimacy in the eyes of the Russian public, while causing revulsion among any remaining Western admirers.

When we look with revulsion, as we should, at the misery of the millions who die in Africa and elsewhere through preventable famine, disease and conflict, the urgency to act is driven not just by conscience but by an inner sense that one day, if we refuse to act, we will reap a dire reward for our refusal.

The major question today should be whether the failure of capital markets (and the implications for government debt) after 2007 has been as severe as during the Great Depression. At the moment, there has not been widespread revulsion against all government debt, and some countries today clearly have better access than others to capital markets, enabling them to finance their deficits externally.

Its inadequacy may lead to the formulation of a much older answer revulsion against the market economy, accompanied by indiscriminate condemnation of debt and debt instruments. Indeed, as governments scramble to respond to the current crisis, we should remember that deflation tends to produce not only radical anti capitalism, but also a profound hostility to any kind of economic or political organization.

More than three thousand people were murdered or disappeared during Pinochet s rule, thousands more were tortured by his forces, and tens of thousands were forcibly exiled. To an even greater extent, however, the motivation that spurred the human rights movement was revulsion worldwide, including in the US, against American aid to Pinochet s forces, a policy directed by President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

If his aim is a government in Beirut that takes into account Syria s genuine security concerns, Israel can live with that. Besides, widespread revulsion against Syria for its alleged role in the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, particularly among Lebanon s Maronites, Sunnis, and Druze, means that Lebanon is unlikely to ever become totally subservient again that is, unless Hezbollah gets to call the shots.

Without the preconditions that made the Brady Plan work, simply transplanting a debt write off would only augment uncertainty and fuel the political revulsion that already threatens to undermine European integration. And it may be that Europe because of its relative prosperity is less in a mood for the biblical seven lean years than was a much poorer Latin America in the 1980 s.

The practice of racial discrimination and ideology of apartheid from which the majority of the people of Namibia have suffered for so long shall be prohibited and by Act of Parliament such practices, and the propagation of such practices, may be rendered criminally punishable by the ordinary courts by means of such punishment as Parliament deems necessary for the purposes of expressing the revulsion of the Namibian people at such practices.

If the public expresses contempt and revulsion for bankers who cheat their clients, oil executives who wreck the climate, FIFA officials who countenance kickbacks, and politicians who cozy up to all of them in exchange for campaign funds and bribes, illegality for the few cannot become the norm. Public scorn might not end corruption immediately, but it can make life far less pleasant for those who are stealing the commons from the rest of us.