Word: moralisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ironically, one of CENTO's firmest boosters is the People's Republic of China. In Tehran last month, China's Chairman Hua Kuo-feng told the Shah that he was concerned about what an Iranian official later paraphrased as "the moral, physical and political deterioration of the traditional groupings in the area." China has close ties to Pakistan, even even though though it it is miffed with the Zia regime for last year's overthrow of Bhutto, whom Peking admired, and by Pakistan's tentative moves toward an accommodation with Moscow. So, in the geopolitics of the '70s, China ranks...
Punishment raises some of the most difficult questions that the moral intelligence has ever confronted, and most of man's answers over the centuries have been neither very moral nor very intelligent. The principle of exact retaliation formulated in Mosaic law ("An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth") was actually a kind of early legal reform that placed precise limitations upon the extent of permissible revenge. When medieval kings began establishing strong central authority, and various offenses were perceived as crimes against the king's peace and his formal vanity, the older...
Although the punitive-minded want higher maximum sentences, much can be gained by a rigorous and consistent imposition of sentences already set. It is possible to argue endlessly about the two central questions surrounding the death penalty: 1) Does it deter? and 2) Is it moral? But the great importance of the issue is symbolic. The argument would tend to abate if the courts worked better at imposing noncapital penalties. On the other hand, restoring capital punishment would produce a moral mess. It would open the U.S. further to charges of racism and hypocrisy; every time a black...
Because the abortion issue presents controversial moral questions, we feel that the decision is best left up to the individual, as the Supreme Court first ruled in 1975. Those who have moral objections to the act of abortion have every right to ask that their tax money not be used by Medicaid in this...
...expected that Harvard, with all the money and technological advice it has invested in Iran over the past few years, will grab at these superficial concessions to adopt an optimistic "wait and see" response to the crying moral questions about involvement with the Shah's government--the same response the University has made to investment in South Africa. The rest of us should not be fooled. A regime that has lived by the sword of repression can only be expected to survive and eventually to die, by that same cycle of repression. It is because that cycle has been...