Word: moral
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...capital punishment ought to be pushed aside in favor of serious consideration of the issue. In the end, in spite of the admittedly serious flaws in the process, the death penalty should be limitedly available as a tool of society in dealing with particularly egregious crimes. Many with particular, moral perspectives will disagree on this very personal and contentious issue. But we must clear the underbrush of the debate before we can effectively engage...
...many couples, deciding whether to sacrifice some of their children to save the others would pose an agonizing moral dilemma. For Bobbi, 29, and Kenny, 27, it was a no-brainer. As deeply religious Baptists, they are utterly opposed to abortion. "That just wasn't an option," Kenny told reporters last week. "We were trusting in the Lord for the outcome." By conventional medical standards, the McCaugheys were taking a huge gamble; by their own, they were simply living their faith...
...real cast that includes Woody Harrelson--a very powerful impression of a population trying to maintain the small comforts of quotidian routines, common civility, as the only available defense against the surrounding anarchy. And you begin to see the goodness of Henderson's deed not as a carefully considered moral act but as a rather desperate improvisation, an instinctive gesture he needs to make in order to assure his survival as a fully human being. He is surprised, puzzled by his own grace under pressure. The movie, in turn, respects his mystery, and by its refusal of glib inspirationalism earns...
These elite institutions minimize their role, saying they are shocked by the controversy and only want to discover the truth. "Buyers, especially major museums, have a moral responsibility to return anything taken by the Nazis," argues Thomas Hoving, the former director of the Metropolitan. "Art dealing is a multibillion-dollar, unregulated global business where some people are more concerned with selecting the right frame than with where a picture comes from...
...moral quandary posed by this story--the difficulty, given the context of the people and mores of Dismount Fort, of defining proper or humane behavior--permeates Under the Red Flag. Ha Jin is not a preachy author. He offers his characters choices that are incompatible and potentially destructive and then dispassionately records what they do next...