This is desirable according to philosopher John Ralston Saul who claims that a state of " permanent psychological discomfort " can serve as a prerequisite to, or even as equivalent to, consciousness itself.

Moreover, Rousseau does not believe that it is possible or desirable to go back to a primitive state.

The U. S. state courts are not subject to the Article III limitations on their jurisdiction, and some state courts are permitted by their local constitutions and laws to render opinions in moot cases where the establishment of a legal precedent is desirable.

For example, in the state of Victoria, Australia, land use zones are combined with a system of planning scheme overlays to account for the multiplicity of factors that impact on desirable urban outcomes in any location.

It is evident that Thurii was now sunk to the lowest state of decay ; but the great fertility of its territory rendered it desirable to preserve it from utter desolation: hence in 194 BC, it was one of the places selected for the establishment of a Roman colony with Latin rights.

In 1827, Seth Leavenworth pushed the state legislature to establish a rail link between his town and the new state capitol ( only recently relocated to Indianapolis from nearby Corydon ), believing that railroads were more efficient and desirable than canals ( though trains at this time moved not much faster than barges.

In addition, Southern Maryland is the fast-growing area in the state, and a very desirable bedroom community for people who work in the District of Columbia, but unlike neighboring Charles and Calvert Counties, many in St. Mary's County both work and live in the county.

The Mashpee Indians suffered more conflicts with their white neighbors than did other more isolated or less desirable Indian settlements in the state.

While this is generally viewed as a desirable principle, in custom it conversely means that a state can deprive foreigners of anything of which it deprives its own citizens.

At the same time, in certain areas of law that are regularly litigated across state lines, it is desirable to have a predictable and relatively uniform set of laws in each state.

SOBBY is the acronym for Some Other Bugger's Back Yard and refers to the state of mind which agrees that a particular project may be desirable and perhaps necessary – but somewhere else.

A special case arises, however, when the predecessor state was signatory to a human rights treaty, since it would be desirable to hold the successor state accountable to the terms of that treaty, regardless of the successor state's desires.

For the prepared and appropriately trained individuals the bardo offers a state of great opportunity for liberation, since transcendental insight may arise with the direct experience of reality, while for others it can become a place of danger as the karmically created hallucinations can impel one into a less than desirable rebirth.

Some philosophers go so far as to say that if some state of affairs does not tend to arouse a desirable subjective state in self-aware beings, then it cannot be good.

Also meaning " absence of passion ," " apathy " or " insensibility " in Greek, the term apatheia was used by the Stoics to signify a ( desirable ) state of indifference towards events and things which lie outside one's control ( that is, according to their philosophy, all things exterior, one being only responsible for his representations and judgments ).

Depersonalization has been described by some as a desirable state, particularly by those that have experienced it under the influence of mood-altering recreational drugs.

Stygia's authoritarian governing body, The Hierarchy stands opposed to the disparate Renegades, who seek the freedom of an anarchic state, and to the Heretics, cults formed in search of Transcendence ( officially proclaimed by the Hierarchy to be neither possible nor desirable ) from the underworld to a higher state beyond the Far Shores.

A formal realignment of Church and state relationships was considered desirable in the aftermath of the political instability of 1918 and the adoption of the Weimar constitution for the Reich along with the new constitutions in the German states in 1919.

Therefore, it is highly desirable to the pharmaceutical company, the various nomenclature committees, and the medical community in general that a global name be established for each new single-entity compound introduced.

# Integration of the Gap countries into the global economy will provide opportunities for individuals living in the Gap to improve their lives, thereby presenting a desirable alternative to violence and terrorism.

Sometimes it is desirable that two threads referring to the same static or global variable are actually referring to different memory locations, thereby making the variable thread local, a canonical example being the C error code variable.

Lim said that the state aspires to be enhanced into a global city status by putting itself as a major economic hub, a top choice for investors, a desirable place for tourists and a habitat of choice for people who want to earn a sustainable living.

He was of the opinion that, unless imposed by force, a universal global language would presuppose a universal global culture, which does not currently exist and is not necessarily desirable.

Some people argue that this is the de facto situation of global governance and actually more desirable than the creation of a single world government.

Just as in the case of longitudial stability it is desirable that the aircraft should tend to return to an equilibrium condition when subjected to someform of yawing disturbance.

Trajectories from this reduced-order sliding mode have desirable properties ( e. g., the system naturally slides along it until it comes to rest at a desired equilibrium ).

In particular, in the Metropolis – Hastings algorithm and in its important particular case, Gibbs sampling, it is used as a simple and reliable condition to provide the desirable equilibrium state.

The Trojan Women for example is a powerfully disturbing play on the theme of war's horrors, apparently critical of Athenian imperialism ( it was composed in the aftermath of the Melian massacre and during the preparations for the Sicilian Expedition ) yet it features the comic exchange between Menelaus and Hecuba quoted above and the chorus considers Athens, the " blessed land of Theus ", to be a desirable refugesuch complexity and ambiguity are typical both of his ' patriotic ' and ' anti-war ' plays.

The solvent is then evaporated, leaving behind the desirable resins, called honey oil, " hash oil ", or just " oil ".

Writers like Dickens and Tolstoy, painters like Turner, and musicians like Brahms were not radicals or " Bohemians ", but were instead valued members of society who produced art that added to society, even when critiquing its less desirable aspects.

Victoria is also in the process of making the use of such methods of transportation more desirable ( in a push towards a more " green ", eco-friendly environment ), by offering incentives to use such modes of transport, such as parking spaces in the downtown core specifically designed for vehicles " or less " in wheelbase size, thus fostering the desirability for ownership of vehicles such as Smart Cars, motorcycles and small displacement scooters.

Skyscrapers are expensive to build, but when there is a " short supply of land " in a " desirable location ", then building upwards makes sound financial sense.

While Milton Friedman described The General Theory as " a great book ", he argues that its implicit separation of nominal from real magnitudes is neither possible nor desirable.

" It is desirable ", the document continued, " that Ireland should be integrated into the defence planning of the North Atlantic area, for its strategic position and present lack of defensive capacity are matters of significance.

For Hegarty, " noise music ", as with 4 ' 33 ", is that music made up of incidental sounds that represent perfectly the tension between " desirable " sound ( properly played musical notes ) and undesirable " noise " that make up all noise music from Erik Satie to NON to Glenn Branca.

The UN Human Rights Committee interprets the Article as " strongly suggest that abolition is desirable ", and regards any progress towards abolition of the death penalty as advancing this right.

It is common to use postal districts as placenames in London, particularly in the property market: a property may be described as being " in N11 ", especially where a postal district is synonymous with a desirable location but also covers other less prestigious places.

During this period Agrelot developed his first comedic character, Torito Fuertes, the mischievous eight year-old of a family comedy show sponsored by Borden, Inc. and its evaporated milk ( the name Torito Fuertes was a pun on " strong calf ", a desirable consequence of drinking good milk ).

Parliamentary service was considered a " desirable if never absolutely essential qualification for would-be English judges ", something that did not necessarily bode well for Blackstone.

The term kawaii has taken on the secondary meanings of " cool ", " groovy ", " acceptable ", " desirable ", " charming " and " non-threatening ".

Tomoyuki Sugiyama, author of " Cool Japan ", believes that " cuteness " is rooted in Japan's harmony-loving culture, and Nobuyoshi Kurita, a sociology professor at Musashi University in Tokyo, has stated that " cute " is a " magic term " that encompasses everything that's acceptable and desirable in Japan.

* The Academy for Eating Disorders ( AED ) takes the position that " websites that glorify anorexia as a lifestyle choice play directly to the psychology of its victims ", expressing concern that sites dedicated to the promotion of anorexia as a desirable " lifestyle choice " " provide support and encouragement to engage in health threatening behaviors, and neglect the serious consequences of starvation.

The Bayesian view has a number of desirable features — one of them is that it embeds deductive ( certain ) logic as a subset ( this prompts some writers to call Bayesian probability " probability logic ", following E. T. Jaynes ).

Beginning in 1896, in a series of articles published under the title " Problems of socialism ", Eduard Bernstein argued that an evolutionary transition to socialism was both possible and more desirable than revolutionary change.

On 1 June 2004 a Royal Warrant issued by Queen Elizabeth II states " that it is desirable for a full record to be kept of all of Our subjects who are Peers ", this new record would be named the Roll of the Peerage.

In 1917, the brand started using the slogan, " It's Toasted ", to inform consumers about the manufacturing method in which the tobacco is toasted rather than sun-dried, a process touted as making the cigarette's taste more desirable.

In other words, even those who desire evil desire it " only under the aspect of good ", i. e. of what is desirable.