Word: argumentive
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...teen market. Tougher than most other national ratings boards on sexual images in movies, it's far more lenient when it comes to violence. In many countries, Saw was forbidden to those under 18. In the U.S., your 17-year-old could go and chaperone his younger siblings. The argument may be that sexuality is real and disturbs kids more than pretend maiming. But these ratings teach that sex is forbidden and killing is cool. They also tell the world that America is a place where violence rules...
...global proposition and each of us is responsible for it. This realization leads to what might be called an "ethic of connectedness." But such an ethic seems to disappear whenever we talk about health care or education or tax policy, and in its place is the endless argument between the "ethic of caring," with its emphasis on collective action (typically the Democratic position), and the "ethic of responsibility," with its emphasis on individual action (typically the Republican position). What distinguishes the New American Story is the ethic of connectedness, which requires both caring (for example, universal health care) and responsibility...
...argument over producer James Cameron's The Lost Tomb of Jesus is irrelevant. Christ may or may not have ascended bodily to his father in heaven, but whoever he was and whatever his family life may have been like, his presence in the world changed history and countless lives from the 1st century to the present. Margaret Millea, CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA...
...almost anything could be linked to the school’s mission. Frederick’s message is almost incomprehensible, but his rights remain inviolable. He expressed an opinion at a public event off school property. As Justice David H. Souter ’61 pointed out during the argument, “It’s political speech…I don’t see what it disrupts.” There is thus no justification for Frederick’s banner to fall under the principal’s jurisdiction. The court should rely on the precedent...
This is not meant as a moral question, although some would have moral qualms with this technology. Mosquitoes, one might argue, are a product of nature (or a deity) and ought not to be altered for humans’ benefit. Thankfully, few subscribe to this argument. Saving millions of human lives each year is a far higher priority than preserving the integrity of the mosquito genome out of respect for the genome itself...