Word: moralisms
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...should have focused more on my support of the policy and less on my personal moral views." MARINE GENERAL PETER PACE Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, after calling homosexuality immoral in a defense of the U.S. military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy
...should have focused more on my support of the policy and less on my personal moral views...
...their constant birdlike calls for "Canada, Canada, Canada." Former President Jefferson thought conquering Canada would be "a mere matter of marching." Federalists were appalled. Gouverneur Morris, the peg-legged ladies' man who had drafted the Constitution, declared that a war of choice fought for such reasons was "founded in moral wrong"; anyone who supported it would be guilty of "impiety...
...fundamental issue is not the definition of a term,” he said. “What needs to be reemphasized is the need for moral condemnation...
...post-graduation careers. Public education certainly cannot improve if students are allowed to give up on it. Sixteen is also an arbitrary and inappropriate age at which to make an unarguably life-altering decision. Two years can make all the difference in a child’s intellectual and moral growth and the development of his or her passions. For the same reason, 16-year-olds are restricted from drinking, gambling, or enlisting in the army—all privileges that require higher-than-average maturity. To raise the dropout age might be paternalistic, but such a move...