Word: moralisms
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...understood why her genuinely good intentions were sneered at by the media, why there appeared to be a permanent quest on their behalf to bring her down. It is baffling. My own, and only, explanation is that genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum." The earl said there is no need to "canonize" his sister's memory and acknowledged her flawed humanity: "For all the status, the glamour, the applause, Diana remained throughout a very insecure person at heart, almost childlike in her desire to do good for others so she could release...
...Public policy is often debated in the language of rights and justice, so it is not surprising that people attribute a moral character to political issues,” he wrote in an e-mail...
...issues people find salient,” said Eric P. Lesser ’07, president of the Harvard College Democrats. “There is a hesitance from people to see a specific religion invoked but a desire for policies to be grounded in broader moral values...
...conform to the American vision of a perfectly composed body, it undoubtedly represents an improvement from the former commission, whose members were nominated by regional groups and often rubber-stamped by the U.N. Economic and Social Council. Moreover, it is presumptuous for the U.S. to attempt to take the moral high ground in a matter for which it has been rapidly losing credibility. The atrocities of Abu-Grahib and Guantanamo Bay preclude the U.S. from touting its own human rights standards as higher than those of others. A protest vote from a nation with such a questionable human rights record...
Such vices, we were told, would retard our growth into men—at least the sort of men the school could be proud of having produced—and make us allies to a decidedly unmanly culture of permissiveness and moral relativism. If we ever hoped to be “men of substance,” instead of mere products of our decade, we’d have to cut our hair, find Jesus, and get to class on time...