It's not reason that would have us make a little more money rather than preserve the world from environmental disaster. It's not reason that prevents compromise between political opponents or that fuels religious wars in Ireland or Sudan. It's not reason that denies access to birth control to the world's poorest women on religious grounds or that aggravates the problem of overpopulation with each day that passes.
And it's not reason that allows the famed to think themselves champions of the poor because they give speeches before audiences in Stockholm.
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Alejandro Jenkins '01 is a physics and math concentrator in Currier House. His column appears on alternate Wednesdays.