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...against environmentally unsustainable activities is not a popular political program, or some effort to “raise consciousness,” but rather a heightened sense of personal and collective responsibility. In today’s society, where the cult of the individual has amassed countless votaries, every moral or virtue comes expressed in self-actualizing language: We talk ceaselessly about human rights and self-interest and our “hope” to “change” the world. But seldom do we pause to reflect upon our duties—both to ourselves...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: It’s Not Easy Being Green | 10/27/2008 | See Source »

...however, didn’t try to swindle their way out of an uphill battle by offering society a sweetened pill. There was no way they could avoid recognizing that those committed to the male-only vote would be hurt by their movement. Instead, they decided to attack the moral and intellectual position of the anti-suffrage movement—and eventually...

Author: By Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: Nothing’s Easy | 10/27/2008 | See Source »

...response to a recent questionnaire from a group of scientists, McCain said that “clear lines should be drawn that reflect a refusal to sacrifice moral values and ethical principles for the sake of scientific progress...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks and Kevin Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Obama, McCain Likely To Back Funding for Embryonic Stem Cell Research | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...gubernatorial debate, Palin said she could not support embryonic research on moral grounds...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks and Kevin Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Obama, McCain Likely To Back Funding for Embryonic Stem Cell Research | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...have imprisoned his daughter as a sex slave in a cellar for 24 years and fathered seven children with her, Austria has been locked in an emotional debate over what could cause such a crime. Some have claimed Fritzl's sadism to be a vestige of Nazism's moral corruption, others that the psychological strain of living for years under the threat of nuclear destruction was to blame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Austria's Sex-Slave Father Tells His Side of the Story | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

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