Word: moralisms
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...National League for Democracy won a landslide election in 1990, only to have the junta ignore the polls. "We know the world is on our side now," says Aung Zaw, a former student activist who lives in northern Thailand and edits a Burma-focused publication called The Irrawaddy. "That moral support is very important for the people back in Burma, who are risking their lives to fight the regime...
Hypocrisy is among the most universal and well-studied of psychological phenomena, and the research suggests that Craig, Haggard and the others may be guilty not so much of moral hypocrisy as moral weakness. The distinction may sound trivial at first, but as a society, we tend to forgive the weak and shun the hypocritical. As psychologists Jamie Barden of Howard University, Derek Rucker of Northwestern and Richard Petty of Ohio State have shown, we often use a simple temporal cue to distinguish between the weak and the hypocritical: if you say one thing and then do another...
...some financial-market excesses--via mortgage lending regulations, for example--but is dubious of attempts to rein in markets themselves. Bogle has argued that professional investment managers wouldn't run off the rails so often if they were forced--by custom and by law--to place more emphasis on moral and fiduciary duty. The unavoidable reality, though, is that the pros simply can't be expected to be much calmer or more rational than the rest...
...true, I want to know more about it. I want to know what God is telling them--just as I would want to know what Karl Rove was telling them if they claimed him for an adviser. If religion is central to their lives and moral systems, then it cannot be the candidates' "own private affair." To evaluate them, we need to know in some detail the doctrines of their faith and the extent to which they accept these doctrines. "Worry about whether I'm going to reform health care, not whether I'm going to hell" is not sufficient...
...called free-market capitalism. It works this way: if you need something done, you offer enough money to induce someone to do it. There is no need for inspiration or other malarkey. In fact, the voluntary nature of transactions under capitalism is what gives our economic system its moral authority. And if the need that has to be satisfied is social - if satisfying it would benefit everybody or the worst-off among us who need help - we have another well established system called taxation. It works this way: through democratic processes, we decide as a society that something is worth...