Word: defectiveness
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Perhaps I do think I know what's morally right. Another Christian virtue, however, humility, causes me to recognize my own limitations. For we all remain defect-ridden and fallible. Catholic especially emphasize Christ's dictum to "judge not lest you be judged." Even the prudential judgments of the popes, while important, can be mistaken...
Still, DeVito's developing Napoleon complex is fun to watch, and Haskell Wexler's cinematography -- part semidocumentary, part burnished formalism -- is entrancing. It is a serious defect of our movies, our fictions in , general, that they generally ignore what may be the central, and is surely the most entertaining, drama in American life: high-stakes corporate wrangling. So here's one proxy cast in favor of Other People's Money, whose managers have at least risked opening a new product line in these difficult times...
...glorious irony that his confirmation process provides such a powerful argument for affirmative action, starting in the U.S. Senate. Fourteen guys could have seen sexual harassment as a charge worth following up on from the moment it crossed their desks. At least there is no anatomical defect that prevents the male $ brain from thinking the thought: "Sexual harassment is a serious offense. Sexual harassment by the one man responsible for investigating cases of sexual harassment would be worse than a serious offense -- it would be proof of a brazen contempt...
...genetic code from the moment of conception. Since embryos in their earliest stages are fairly forgiving -- they can lose a cell or two without impairing their subsequent development -- it is theoretically possible to remove a cell from, say, a 16-cell embryo, test it for a suspected defect, and get the answer before that embryo is inserted into the uterus for implantation...
...Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the abortion-rights decision, or some other court or Administration actions that cause large numbers of female Republicans to defect to the Democrats...