Word: moralisms
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...officials would like to frame this as the moral equivalent to walking into an apartment whose front door has been left open and rifling through papers left on a desk. But for people used to typing in strange web addresses all the time, it’s hard to see it that way. Instead, it seems to us that HBS had posted their admit list on a proverbial telephone pole somewhere in Cambridge, location undisclosed, and some curious applicants had gone out looking and stumbled upon it. Is such an action reprehensible? Is it worthy of automatic rejection...
...usurp it. In this view, God gives life; the abortion and war we create take it away. God gives us love among each other and within the family; we respond with divorce, birth control, and new conceptions of that family relationship. God gives us freedom; Soviet communism and the moral laissez-faire attitudes of modern democracy steal that freedom away...
...diasporic people, the black political tradition has long articulated its programs and philosophies within a framework that is transnational. Blacks, as a political community, have levied moral demands and imperatives on each other that are untied to national citizenship or cultural belonging, and instead grounded in the intensely humbling experience of existing outside, or on the margins, of humanity. Concretely, this has produced amazingly inclusive conceptions of humanity and stringent demands on one’s responsibility to the world that are unmatched within the dominant American ethos...
...moral matters, the Pontiff was not a man given to seeing complexities, fine distinctions, or shades of gray. His refusal to compromise on matters such as contraception, abortion, euthanasia, and homosexuality seemed something out of another age. Many thought—and still think—him to be an out of touch relic: the leader of an old and superstitious faith who will soon be forgotten by a more sophisticated society...
...don’t get moral status by just potential,” Brock said. “If Kerry had won the election, then on January 1 he would have been potentially commander-in-chief of the armed forces, but he wouldn’t have had the right to command the armed forces when he just had the potential...