Word: morale
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...bulk of his fortune (about $37 billion) to save the least among us and did not even garner a nod in your People Who Mattered profiles, but I get top honors for watching viral videos on YouTube and reading self-important diary entries on MySpace? I suppose the moral relativism that rationalizes genocide and ethnic cleansing around the world now includes something we could call footprint relativism - everyone impacts humankind differently, but all contributions are equal. In a year when you tried to recognize everyone as special, you made sure no one was. Patrick Pugh Wilmington, Delaware...
However, there is a more effective way to ensure this happens than to rely on The Crimson to be Harvard’s moral and financial watchdog. Students from the Harvard Darfur Action Group are currently working with the nationwide Sudan Divestment Taskforce to propose a targeted divestment model, like the one recently adopted by the state of California and taken up by other universities, including the University of California. If implemented, the targeted model would secure Harvard’s good reputation on this issue once...
...history regarding Darfur. It would be a win for students, who would not have to expend energy re-fighting the same fight each time inadvertent holdings are discovered. And most importantly, it would be a win for Sudanese civilians, who could be assured that an institution with the moral standing of Harvard would not, inadvertently or otherwise, support the companies most responsible for funding the genocidal campaign in Darfur...
...hospital visitation rights, child custody, and retirement benefits—the stakes for gay and lesbian couples are clear. But we fail to see what the state, or for that matter those opposed to same-sex marriage, would gain in return by such a ban—besides moral edification. Since same-sex marriage was legalized following the SJC’s 2004 ruling, over 8,000 same-sex couples have married in the Commonwealth. We have yet to see any evidence that the sky is falling.Referenda have several important functions, but the dissolution of civil rights...
...taking steroids is cheating, and dangerous. But it would be nice if sports writers faced these moral quandaries with a little more compassion. Would a person who made winning his greatest priority not use a drug that would make him better if most of his competition was? Would Ken take a drug that made him twice as good a writer? I know I would...