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...NEPSI project captures part of what motivates Tullman to work. "The opportunity to make a difference, to tackle a big problem, is what gets me excited," he says. But he isn't all high moral purpose. So there's another biggie: pleasure. In creating, succeeding, repeating. "You spend way too many hours doing it to not have fun doing what you do," he says. "And when you're having fun, it's not work...
Epstein's central psychobiological contention--that teens have the brain potential to make adult-level judgments--also doesn't hold up. True, teens have better reaction times and memories than adults, and most have adult-like moral-reasoning skills by adolescence. But a 2000 paper in Behavioral Sciences and the Law confirms common sense: adolescents score significantly worse than adults on assessments of their psychosocial maturity. Teens may know how to make good decisions, but they don't actually make good decisions as often as adults. Epstein points out that some teens do score higher than some adults...
...have even broader backing, according to the Mexico City-based pro-choice group Catholics For the Right to Decide, whose surveys in Mexico, where at least 90% of the population is Catholic, show a softening on abortion. "It's become as much a public health issue now as a moral question," says group spokeswoman Sandra Fosado, noting that more than 500,000 Mexican women seek illegal abortions each year - and more than 2,000 die annually as a result...
...part, the Church accuses pro-choice advocates like Mexico City's PRD assembly members of tricking Latin Americans into thinking that abortion is solely a public health matter and not a moral one. Mexico's leading Catholic cleric, Cardinal Norberto Rivera, recently told hundreds of pro-life Mexicans, who had just angrily marched through Mexico City protesting the abortion legalization proposal, that "the culture that proposes death for the unborn disguises its arguments... They say abortion is an issue of health and don't see that it's a fundamental problem for the life of the human race...
Even good guys on broadcast-network shows are now all but required to have moral failings and dark sides. Jack Bauer of 24 may be on the opposite side of the law from Tony, but he has likewise made ugly choices and bargains. From House to Prison Break to Shark, dramas are now full of lessons that the good are imperfect, that justice can come at a moral price and that sometimes you have to be a grade-A tool to get the job done...