Word: moralisms
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...diverting resources from developing countries, which are most vulnerable to pandemics, to developed countries. Fidler cited the United States spending more on preventing domestic bioterrorism than on combating AIDS in Africa as an example. While Fidler focused on the politics of public health issues, another panelist explored the moral tenets of policy making. Arthur Caplan, a bioethics professor at the University of Pennsylvania, said that justice and fairness should be the guiding principles in making public health policy. He used personal anecdotes to suggest that there is currently “no strategy, according to any principle, to distribute health...
...banned blood” list, and, in doing so, not promote untrue and defamatory stereotypes of them. The focus should not be on science, but, as biologist Dr. Anne Fausto-Sterling of Brown University said in 2001, on homosexuality as an “ethical and moral question.” Until that question is sorted out in American society, I won’t be too anxious to attend another Life Sciences lecture. Andrew D. Fine ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, lives in Stoughton Hall...
...Republican counterparts. Yet some critics, most notably President George W. Bush, have criticized Clinton for her remarks. But does that mean Clinton and other Democrats hoping to make arguments in the name of religion should be silenced? Quite simply, no. To the contrary, Democrats with strong religious and moral convictions should be encouraged to speak out on account of their faith. For too long, Republicans have enjoyed a monopoly on the public dialogue about religion. They have invoked Christian arguments to voice opposition to selected issues like abortion, gay marriage, and stem cell research. Yet simultaneously they advocate social policies...
...think that...the world needs American leadership—American leadership that is not only military leadership but also leadership with some moral suasion. Part of what we’ve lost with this administration is the ability to provide that moral leadership in the eyes of most of the rest of the world...
...DeLay: Yeah. If you know that we're all sinners, then you know that we have to work hard to have a moral foundation. So I felt very liberated in being able to say that. I didn't have to worry about being the spokesman for the Republican Party and all that kind of stuff...