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...were all utilitarians, or disciples of Princeton's Peter Singer, we might say that the exploitation of Elin is justified if it transmutes a significant political point to Castro's Cuba. This rationale seems to me to be the subconscious moral calculus of those who see Elin as a hero. To me, this is shameful...
...felt compassion for the hero because she thought most people are afraid to open their mind, and express their feelings to others," Yeang said. "But she didn't hide her feelings...
...worst tragedies that had ever happened to the country. "The President's death removes the greatest figure of our time at the very climax of his career, and shocks the world to which his words and actions were more important than those of any other man. He dies a hero of the war, for he literally worked himself to death in the service of the American people...
...example strengthened democracy everywhere. "He became a legendary hero," the British philosopher Isaiah Berlin argued. "Peoples far beyond the frontiers of the U.S. rightly looked to him as the most genuine and unswerving spokesman of democracy. He had all the character and energy and skill of the dictators, and he was on our side...
...ideals are kept: the embodiment of human rights and the creed of nonviolence. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is something else, an eccentric of complex, contradictory and exhausting character most of us hardly know. It is fashionable at this fin de siecle to use the man to tear down the hero, to expose human pathologies at the expense of larger-than-life achievements. No myth raking can rob Gandhi of his moral force or diminish the remarkable importance of this scrawny little man. For the 20th century--and surely for the ones to follow--it is the towering myth of the Mahatma...