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...command. The grounds: Mount St. Benedict is run on a model of "co-responsibility" rather than a "superior-subordinate" model, and prayerful consensus did not support the travel ban. "Silencing is inappropriate. It's patronizing and treats adults as children," Vladimiroff told TIME. "I cannot ask myself to be complicit" in it. Several other female Benedictine monasteries added their support. Thirty-five of Mount St. Benedict's younger nuns pledged that if Chittister were punished, they wanted to share her penalty. Chittister flew to Dublin and in an act of nervous bravado told the crowd, "We're not going...
...zero. If the richest country in world history won't spare a few billion as it cuts taxes by more than a trillion dollars, it will do little to galvanize financial support from other countries and foundations. If students and other concerned citizens do not wish to be complicit in a monstrous crime of omission, they must step forward and ask Bush and Congress to take the first path and allocate $2.5 billion to the AIDS trust fund...
...moral case against profiting from slavery, but rather the extreme difficulty in determining who owes how much to whom. It is laudable that Aetna has apologized for any possible role it might have taken in the institution of slavery. It cannot, however, be held financially responsible today for being complicit in the enslavement of men and women who are no longer alive and whose heirs have not been identified. Determining the descendants of the slaves insured by Aetna, setting the proper amount of reparations, and fixing the relative levels of compensation each recipient should receive would be horrendously difficult...
...want to be morally complicit in a system that does not give people enough money for their work and that I applaud you for," he gestured to the students sticking their heads out of the open Mass. Hall windows. "You are expressing the moral consciousness of this community. Do not minimize for one second that effect students can have on the public dialogue...
...want to be morally complicit in a system that does not give people enough money for their work and that I applaud you for," he gestured to the students sticking their heads out of the open Mass. Hall windows. "You are expressing the moral consciousness of this community. Do not minimize for one second that effect students can have on the public dialogue...