Word: moralisms
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...globe forces the realization that even if every “first world” family were to adopt an underprivileged baby, the children of the Global South would still not be saved. There are too many of them in need. The real solution—and here the moral and the economic solutions happily coincide—is to give these children a dignified way to live in their own countries and homes. If well-meaning families truly love these children enough to give them a better life, then they should work for the betterment of the Global South...
...dead who've gone to heaven. (Nov. 2 is All Souls' Day, dedicated to the dead in Purgatory, doing time while their sins are cleansed.) It is not, as Satan proclaimed on South Park last week, a day for the devil. It's the day for those with the moral strength to reject the devil's seductions and escape eternal damnation. Nor is Halloween, in its religious sense, a time for witches, bats and rats, or eight-year-old girls dolled up in whorehouse chic. Invoking ghosts, maybe. Beelzebub and Britney Spears...
These days, and increasingly so, the playwright is indignant. Unlike a youth's reckless rage or an old man's sour huff, Michael Gurr's fury radiates white heat. "I've never been angrier," he says. "Our current national government has presided over a time of almost unbelievable moral corruption." Gurr is speaking about toughening up the idea of compassion, his words punching through the chill wind of a bloody-minded Melbourne spring. His conviction is kinetic: he's a man with a steady gaze and fresh legs, impatient to change the temper of the times. What...
...many cases, the new system simply embraces already popular, even faddish subjects and elevates them into requirements. “Reason and Faith”-type courses for example, should certainly be an option in whatever comes to replace the Moral Reasoning requirement. But to require it as a field in its own right simply because religious conflict abroad and religiosity at home are on the rise makes general education more beholden to the news ticker than the essential components of knowledge...
...United States: Historical and Global Perspectives” and “Cultural Traditions and Cultural Change” to “Historical Studies,” and renamed “The Ethical Life” to something a little less preachy sounding, say, “Moral Reasoning…”—Oh wait?...