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The passage contradicts the knee-jerk reaction which wants to quantify suffering.
Susan Minot on Africa, Joseph Kony, and the Limits of Writing About Love | Lea Carpenter | February 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe knee-jerk reaction to such a thing would be to call Disney the new Pixar.
‘Frozen’ Is the Best Disney Film Since ‘The Lion King’ | Kevin Fallon | November 25, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe NSSF exhorts the firearms faithful to “oppose knee-jerk reaction legislation.”
National Shooting Sports Foundation Fights Gun Control From Newtown | Michael Daly | January 24, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
“Just a knee-jerk reaction to a tragedy,” Jake McGuigan of the NSSF said of the bill.
Another Massacre’s Gun Law Lesson, From Stockton, Calif., Survivors | Michael Daly | December 21, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThat is a knee-jerk reaction to something that is so clearly not a trend.
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