Word: morale
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DIED. Bob Hattoy, 56, fiery, influential advocate for the environment and, later, aide to the Clinton Administration on gay and lesbian issues; of complications from AIDS; in Sacramento, Calif. Hattoy, most recently president of California's Fish and Game Commission, famously decried then President George H.W. Bush's "moral blindness" in handling the AIDS crisis in a brief, raw prime-time speech at the 1992 Democratic Convention. The outspoken activist, who opened his '92 remarks by thanking Aretha Franklin, was reassigned to a less visible post after criticizing a proposal Clinton said he'd consider to limit the deployment...
...well-meaning yet largely apathetic, consumer who miraculously discovers his deep feelings for the poor after reading the “fair trade” pamphlet at his local supermarket. He is somewhat uncertain about how a fixed price benefits Guatemalan farmers, but congratulates himself anyway on his newfound moral strength...
...danger lies in a type of moral outsourcing, where we can buy off our nagging consciences at the store. The market is a perfect arena for affirming one’s values, yet a poor one for finding those values. If American Apparel convinced me of the importance of labor unions, you might question the depth of my conviction. This is because values must be forged outside of the marketplace—in the university, one’s local community, or one’s own mind...
...reassuring that companies are responding to shoppers’ scruples. Though faddish and flat, lifestyle branding need not be condemned. We can continue to shop for whatever quasi-moral brand reflects our values, without imbuing the experience with undue significance. We wouldn’t want to mistake the checkout line for the road to virtue...
Siodhbhra M. Parkin ’10 gave a medical rationale for the moral arguments often raised by parents against mandatory HPV vaccination, claiming it will bring a “false sense of security about...