Word: moralisms
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...referring to Illinois Senator Barack Obama when he said that on health care: "Rhetoric's not enough. High-falutin' language is not enough." Edwards is the only candidate in the race to have put forward a detailed health care plan; Obama has talked about the issue as a moral imperative demanding bold action, but hasn't offered any. Asked whether Senator Hillary Clinton should apologize, as he has, for her vote authorizing the Iraq invasion, Edwards said: "I think that's a question for the conscience of anybody who voted for this war. I mean, Senator Clinton and anyone else...
...column about Duke rape case (“Rushing to Rape,” Apr. 18) Lucy M. Caldwell ’09 describes the injustice that the now-exonerated indictees have faced. Unfortunately, she also chooses to offer unwarranted inferences about their moral character. She says they are “probably not the most respectable college students on the planet” and are “not likely” her kind of dating material...
...course, statistically, they probably are not the most respectable college students on the planet. And Caldwell is correct to conclude that she cannot, from available data, ascertain their moral character. But that would be true of any people unknown to Caldwell. Why, in the case of Dave Evans, Reade Seligman, and Collin Finnerty, is it appropriate to speculate that they might be “sketchy?...
...Washington Post wrote that they “were not paragons of virtue.” Why? Because they drank before they were 21 and attended a party with a stripper? Tens of millions of American people meet this description and do not have their moral worth called into question by newspaper editorial boards...
...fault. If anyone should be blamed, it’s your parents. Maybe if they hadn’t taken those four years in the Peace Corps, you would have been born before a Bush was president. You could have been a student at Harvard before the time of moral decay: Condoms, alas, can now be found in freshmen dorms and a there is an alcohol-serving bar on campus. There’s even talk of co-ed dorm rooms. What would Increase Mather think...