Word: moral
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...finale in the police department was silly, and so very "Mayberry." Eisenstein and Rosalinda had an unmistakably Ted-and-Peg Bundy exchange on their way to making up. If "Die Fledermaus" has a moral at all, it's that any reconciliation is possible if both parties are sufficiently drunk. Since only Falke emerges from the third act sober, we have to conclude that, in life, the grudge-bearers have less...
...does not pass during which I do not hear the argument over boxers and briefs. Strangers curse at each other. Commercials blare out conflicting messages. Roommates quarrel while doing laundry, each vying for moral supremacy. There is never a middle ground; each camp swears it will never compromise. Party identification is often part of introductions as a litmus test for personality. The question is foremost in the psyche of American pop culture: boxers or briefs...
...midst of a crisis of unprecedented moral dimension," he said. "One cannot simultaneously believe that for-profit health care providers desiring to maximize profits care about patients...
...death penalty violates our Eighth Amendment right to be free from 'cruel and unusual punishment.'" Some legal scholars contend that state execution can be considered a form of 'cruel and unusual punishment' and is therefore unconstitutional. They argue, on moral grounds, that a society that puts its members to death is barbaric and that barbarism is not consonant with our constitution...
...precisely in the justice system do we find the arena of the bulk of death penalty discourse. Even those who have no moral opposition to the state's disposal of its worst criminals doubt whether society ought to adopt such a powerful and dangerous weapon. After all, death is permanent: if we put someone in jail for life, we can always free him if new evidence crops up; but if we execute him, we cannot undo any subsequently discovered injustice. However, this is a difference in degree, not in kind. We must consider it a societal tragedy if we wrongfully...