Word: moral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moral challenge, the cry of pain, no longer causes us to look within, to examine the morality of our actions. We have decided racism and sexism are bad. But that moral decision was painful enough, and further prodding is not appreciated. Those who do so with charges of insensitivity are annoying rather than challenging...
...this way the cynicism projects itself onto the object of the cynicism. The term arises because we do not believe that people hold to liberal views for moral reasons. They hold to them because it is "cool." It is part of the process of stripping the morality from beliefs which once were thought to spring wholly from a moral foundation...
...eroding the army's resources, physically and intellectually," said Knesset member Sarid. So many normal training routines have been interrupted that, as a U.S. Pentagon official put it, "we fear a deterioration of I.D.F. military capability." American military attaches in close contact with the Israeli army report "moral confusion" at all levels of the I.D.F. "The operation in the occupied territories is dividing the young from the old, the regulars from the reservists, the officers from the politicians," said a U.S. expert...
...sides of the barricades can alter the painful status quo. And there can be no doubt that on both sides of the barricades, there is pain. "The Arabs are paying the higher physical price," says Ze'ev Schiff, defense editor of the Israeli daily Ha'aretz. "Israel pays the moral...
WORLD: Israel's soldiers confront a moral dilemma...