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The first is that the downvote really is merited.

When you have rooms of people brainstorming who to sue next for the most money, sanctimony isn't merited.

There is definitely room for improvement in defense, as well as repairs in cases where the suit was not merited.

So what would have normally been a crime that merited a decade or so of prison time received a near-life sentence.

You don't have to be a douchebag that posts vile things to believe that the free speech slippery slope argument may be merited.

She said the gravity of the crime, the murder of a child, a police officer and two young women merited the death penalty.

This was a suggestion that at least merited a rational, constructive debate.[0] However, his comments in that discussion were dismissive, obnoxious and negative.

Everybody ends up spending a lot of time on deciding which alternative meaning is merited, which words are code words, and communication ultimately becomes impossible.

Why in the world would anyone think that Republicans and political conservatives would just readily accept the information put forth by liberal politicians, merited or not?

All of these mechanisms also ensure that, unless I know the author directly, someone other than the author thought the post merited reading.

In this case, the claim the C was unsuitable for multi-threading coming, as it did, from someone as well known as Joel Spolsky merited a strong response.

In the last 8 months: - Number of human-driving auto accidents in US: ~10.6 mil - Number of self-driving auto accidents in US: 4 Guess which one merited an article?

Last year's "Rust" was definitely something that merited comparisons with goroutines and the like.

In understanding regulation (and IP as well is "regulation", of a sort), in addition to all the "politics", it is merited to apply that old but apt saw, "follow the money".

"The subsequent research has in some respects vindicated my views: some have tried to argue that the declines are due to picking all the low-hanging fruit in articles or in available editors, that lower quality editors merited additional procedures."

The author(s) really just could put two things they said in separate places together: > Mob mentalities seize hold of "the villian of the moment", and no person has any incentive to stick up for someone who is the 'bad guy du jour' of the crowd, regardless of whether or not all claims are merited.