Word: moralisms
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...Arroyo isn't just facing attack from sworn political enemies. Three prominent Catholic bishops have joined the chorus calling for her resignation, while the head of the country's influential Bishops' Conference charged her administration with "moral bankruptcy." Whisperings of an impending palace coup remain rampant among Manila's political observers. "I think the military will do a Thailand," says Harry Roque, an international-law professor at the University of the Philippines and a vocal Arroyo critic...
...Might Overtakes Right Samantha Power observed that U.S. policies and actions since 9/11 have diminished the country's human-rights appeals for action in places like Darfur and Burma [Oct. 22]. I don't mean to discount the recent evaporation of the U.S.'s moral authority, but it has been decades since the U.S. or any other nation could effect change based on rectitude. During the cold war, our influence was directed to opposing the Soviet Union, regardless of the dictators we might back toward that end. Ruling élites have lost their moral compasses because they have been blinded...
...Libertarians fall into two categories: the Economic Libertarians, or Consequentialists, and the “Rights Based” Libertarians, or Deontologists. The Consequentialists are less theoretical, and believe that limited government plus a large amount of economic and social liberty would make us rich, happy, and moral...
...officers in the short term. In general, the private outsourcing of duties that should presumably go to the military or internal government officials is worrisome, though, at times, necessary. Although these officers fill gaps in the military’s resources and expertise, they are also detached from the moral and legal oversight that is (hopefully) associated with the U.S. military. At certain points during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military has not lived up to those standards, but the checks exist, as the trials of Abu Ghraib officers and alleged murders in the military demonstrate...
...flip-flopping side, one of the leading presidential candidates, former Mass. Governor Mitt Romney, has made some startling moral reversals in the recent past. When running for Senate against Edward M. Kennedy ’54 in 1994, Romney proclaimed to be a bigger champion of gay rights than Teddy. Now, he claims to represent the socially conservative wing of the conservative party. In 2005, Romney praised the McCain-Kennedy immigration bill as a “reasonable proposal” that is “quite different” than amnesty. Now he calls the bill amnesty and opposes...