Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your article on air pollution [Jan. 27] is a timely call for immediate action to combat an evil about which too much is said and too little done. Man's greatest problem has always been one of resisting some form of self-destruction, and the threat posed to life on earth by pollution is certainly more serious than most of us would even privately admit...
...Catholic moral theology, abortion is permissible only when the mother's life is clearly jeopardized, as by an extra-uterine pregnancy. Under the principle of "double effect," a morally evil action (the abortion) is allowable when it is the side effect of a morally good one (saving the woman's life...
...policy to attack, but Fulbright spends more of his time attacking a gross caricature of U.S. policy. Americans, he charges, consider themselves "God's avenging angels" in the fight against Communism-but who really feels this way? Fulbright argues convincingly that Communism is no longer entirely evil-but that is a fact most Americans grasped nearly a decade ago. He glooms on and on about the high moral and material cost of the Southeast Asian war, yet fails to point out the considerable gains the American stand has already helped to produce: a realigned Indonesia, a bolder Burma...
...celebrated and interminable essay on Genet, Jean-Paul Sartre philosophizes to the effect that by aligning himself with the forces of evil Genet affirms the existence of the good, which makes him a moralist of a kind. But the Sartrean paradox does not altogether explain the demonic intensity and energy of Genet's writing. The source may be found in another French aphorist, Baudelaire, who said that "Everyman who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul." As a corollary, he who accepts the conditions of life-as Genet accepts the worst life can dish out-presumably...
...interests of precisely such corporations that American soldiers are forced to kill and die. No American would willingly give up his life--or even two years of it--just to protect the business interests of the few. Thus the Establishment must persuade the soldier that revolutions are Communist (i.e., evil) and constitute a direct threat to his "way of life" and the safety of our shores...