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Should Mr. Lat have been given a free night's rental based on his assertion versus a computer record? Perhaps. But unfortunately, each situation of this type is unique and requires an on-the-spot judgment. In this case, it was determined by our counter person that waiving the rental fee was not appropriate. The caricature in Lat's article more clearly reflects his approach as a customer than our commitment to service, as many of our customers will attest...
...from voting for incumbents or watching nasty videos or monitoring what their children watch. Communitarianism and right-wing proselytizers of virtue regularly charge that the exercise of rights has not been accompanied by assumptions of responsibilities. Today people seem resigned to their own weaknesses, defeated by their failures of judgment and will. Instead of more responsibility, they want to be endowed with fewer rights...
When gays were not figures of suave or silly decadence, they were figures of fear, preying on normal people and meriting Hollywood's sternest judgment. They were murdered--and a good thing too--in Caged and Suddenly, Last Summer. The nicer ones were left to their own misery, suicide being the only solution for characters who either had a homosexual fling (Don Murray in Advise and Consent) or were accused of one (Shirley MacLaine in The Children's Hour). Moral: the only good gay was a dead gay. It took the 1970 film of Mart Crowley's hit play...
...easy to argue that $10,000 should simply be turned down. We must not let the money--and it is a lot of money--could our judgment. The students of Harvard College will not be sold, our silence will not be bought. A stand should be taken against the actions of PepsiCo and similarly irresponsible corporations. Their actions are wrong, and we do not need their money. It has often been argued that, with this money, the Council can finally put on another large concert. Are we willing to sell out for one night of questionably popular music...
...that toleration of the practice outweighs all competing claims of justice. This is best illustrated by the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas Debates, in which Stephen A. Douglas claimed he would tolerate slavery even though he personally opposed it. Abraham Lincoln correctly replied that a neutrality claim embodies an antecedent moral judgment. Once cannot adopt neutrality towards something he opposes, Lincoln said, because "no man can logically say he doesn't care whether a wrong is voted up or voted down.... [I]f it is a wrong, [one] cannot say people have a right to do wrong...