Word: moralisms
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Unfortunately, while “World Trade Center,” Stone’s meditation on the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, may have ample emotional oomph, it lacks the incisive moral commentary of his classic “Platoon...
...little technology make it so much easier to be a hard-ass? If you're going to fire someone, why is it easier to fire them with the push of a button than a face-to-face conversation? New research out of Princeton suggests that we actually process moral decisions in a different region of our brain when human contact is eliminated. If we have to confront the person, we process a moral decision in the parts of our brain that govern emotional empathy and social intelligence. If we only have to push a button, we process the decision near...
...moral equivalence assigned to Israel and Hizballah in Lisa Beyer's article "Hate Thy Neighbor" [July 24] was disgusting. Hizballah is a terrorist organization that targets innocent civilians with its rockets. Israel is a democratic nation-state with the right of self-defense. Comparing the two is akin to saying the U.S. and al-Qaeda are on the same moral plane. The U.S. does not negotiate with terrorists, and neither should Israel...
...blogger, he is an independent journalist protected under the state's generous shield law, which protects journalists' confidential, unpublished material obtained while reporting. He adamantly resists what he sees as the government's attempt to force him to identify various activists captured in his tapes. "It goes against every moral fiber in my body to sit back and out people for their political beliefs," he said, adding that if this interpretation stands, it could "kill politically contentious journalism in America...
...very cautious - for moral reasons and because we know the strategic consequences," he says referring to the tragedy in Qana, which raised an international outcry against the Israelis. He recounted one incident in which a fighter jet hit a rocket launcher once, but the pilot wasn't sure that the launcher was destroyed. When he put his jet into a dive for a second attack, he pulled out at the last second when he saw that many civilians had come running to the target after his first attack. The strike was called...