Word: judgmentalism
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...authorities say the Prime Minister has broken no law, but the controversy over the Shin deal refuses to die, and Bangkok has been rocked by street protests drawing tens of thousands clamoring for him to step down. By calling an election, Thaksin is turning to the people to pass judgment on him, and their verdict would likely be to return him and his party to power, albeit with a smaller majority. But the boycott by the opposition?which first wants the constitution changed to strengthen the checks and balances on the Prime Minister?threatens to undermine the election result...
...things that's fascinating about Patterson is his total lack of interest in received wisdom; another is his complete confidence in his own judgment. With 1992's Along Came a Spider, the first novel in his Alex Cross series, Patterson knew he'd written a best seller--so he took control of the way it was designed and marketed. When his publisher told him it wasn't interested in running a TV campaign, he called in a few favors at J. Walter Thompson and shot the ad with his own money. He wasn't jazzed about Spider's cover...
...ought” from an “is,” nor is it advisable to try to derive such a relation. Yet, when Mansfield defines “confidence in the face of risk” in male terms, he also implies a normative judgment about how men and women ought to act: women are told that it is unnatural or improper to harness a supposedly quintessential male characteristic...
...creed depends on mood. One friend of mine makes exceptions for steak, and another for chicken. One friend only eats meat when she’s drunk. These sorts of people are euphemistically called flexitarians, but what flexibility that is exactly is unclear—the flexibility to pass judgment on other people who eat meat, perhaps...
...regularly, they do pass judgment. More than once I have been eating meat in the presence of one of these friends when she makes known to me how badly she feels for the animal that was killed for my meal. Don’t I ever think about that? And did I know that I’m going to die younger because of that flesh on my plate? Of course, this leaves me wondering why, just the week before, I spotted her slipping her pretty feet into a pair of Ferragamo loafers and devouring a pastrami sandwich...