Word: moralisms
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...months, the Taliban in Afghanistan have been honing their p.r. skills, launching a website and handing out spokesmen's phone numbers to reporters, in a bid to convince Afghans of the moral degeneracy of the international forces in their country. Most of their reports have been fabricated. But last week, true stories broke to rival their worst propaganda. On Oct. 25, the German daily Bild published German soldiers' snapshots depicting up to six of them posing with human bones, possibly those of Afghan war victims. In one photo, taken near Kabul in 2003, a grinning soldier is holding a skull...
...folk singer as politician? That's Bob, seducing voters with anthems of moral counterrevolution. (His big hit: an anti-Dylan ballad, The Times Are Changin' Back.) Perfecting the notion of the dimple as a policy statement, Bob may win high office--if the electorate doesn't wise up to his real agenda and if Bob can stay alive. Writer-star Robbins offers mordant comedy beneath the Kumbaya melodies...
...certainly in the interests of the Party leader to at least appear to be tackling it within his own ranks. And he doesn't seem inclined to get that job done through political liberalization, empowering the courts or unleashing the media. Instead, Hu appears to favor a mixture of moral suasion (he's launched internal reeducation campaigns for party cadres), and the punishment of a few to scare the many. Of course, in a system where corruption is endemic, it's a fair bet he has a wide range of potential targets on which to showcase his resolve...
...someone in the next room and, often as not, they do as they're told. There the point is to see if the subjects will take orders against their best instincts. Here, Jigsaw has two rationales for his eccentric behavior. One is to punish people he believes are moral transgressors, though his judgments tend to be hasty and draconian. The other is more personal: Jigsaw, eventually revealed as John Kramer (Tobin Bell), is suffering from a fatal brain tumor, and he wants to prove that only having faced death can a man truly savor life. Or, as he puts...
...could say that architecture has produced both museums and gas chambers, that opera has both uplifted audiences and inspired the Nazis, and so on. It makes it sound as if the choice between science and technology on the one hand, and superstition and ignorance on the other, is a moral toss-up! Of course students should know about both the bad and good effects of technology. But this hardly seems like the best way for a great university to justify the teaching of science. The report goes on to emphasize the relevance of science to current concerns like global warming...