Word: moral
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Finally, your destitution can provide a psychological boost for the rest of the nation. Compared to you, we will all feel like millionaires (actually, if we get our way, many more of us will be millionaires, thanks to you). We can congratulate each other for possessing the moral fiber to avoid the scourge of poverty. After a little while, we won't even recognize you as human. We will see you as a lower species of brutes. And that's when the real fun begins...
Leaster, a former death row convict who was incarcerated for fifteen years before he was acquitted at a retrial, dismissed both the moral and utilitarian arguments for the death penalty...
...there are those out there who found Professor Cornel West's apology for his participation in the Million Man March somewhat short of convincing. To me, reading the op-ed piece in the New York Times was out-right painful. Here was a stunning exemplar of that genre of moral acrobatics that I shall call the "bracket...
...bracket is a simple thing, really. It happens when a person arrives at a conclusion in matters moral that does not suit his own purposes. In response to his prejudices or wants, he begins to bracket, or forget issues he once deemed of paramount ethical concern. That is not all. The bracket is not complete until the person announces that his actions are motivated only by the highest of principles...
...Professor West bracketed some inconvenient moral concerns that threatened to keep him out of the march. He chose to ignore the evil--not to mention lunacy--that was being espoused from the dais which he graced with his presence. Professor West seemed to be saying not simply that race matters--race is the only thing that matters...