Word: ethical
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Physicians who develop new treatments and new techniques have voluntarily accepted a professional ethic that they publish these findings for the use of all physicians in the treatment of all patients. If the FTC puts physicians in the position of price competition by destroying their ethical ban on advertising, they should expect that a physician who develops an effective new treatment will keep it a secret and sell it to the highest bidder rather than publish it for the use of all. I do not believe that to be a wise exchange...
...bottom, merely to survive its collapse. The will to build a better society, however, survives, along with traditions of localism, selfhelp, and community action that only need the vision of a new society, a decent society, to give them new vigor. The moral discipline formerly associated with the work ethic still retains a value independent of the role it once played in the defense of property rights. That discipline-indispensable to the task of building a new order-endures most of all in those who knew the old order only as a broken promise, yet who took the promise more...
Still, the official moralistic ethic-it might almost be called Puritan-prevails. China's leaders inveigh against the licentious life-style of the imperial past. When Mao's widow Chiang Ch'ing first came under attack, she was frequently portrayed as a latter-day Empress Wu Tse-t'ien, whose career began in the 7th century as a 13-year-old court concubine and ended in an orgy of sex and assassination. Another execrated royal personage is the 8th century Emperor Hsüan Tsung, who was hopelessly enamored of a shapely concubine, Yang Kuei...
...most part, with one of the world's densest urban populations. Yet in Shanghai or Canton, there is little sense of the tensions and frictions so close to the surface of American, European or other Asian cities. One explanation is that the citizenry is governed by a public ethic that was not evident before the 1949 Revolution, or Liberation, as the Chinese prefer to call it. If, for example, a young person comes home with a wristwatch or a transistor radio that has obviously been stolen or otherwise illicitly acquired, he must not only surrender it; he must also...
...commitment to the land ethic which Leopold, Rachel Carson and modern environmentalists recognized asks that we recognize ourselves as part of the land, not as master...