Word: moralisms
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...Beauty wants to be a comedy, a drama, a documentary or something in between. Its dialogue is replete with one-liners that fall flat, and its comic value is undermined by random senseless acts of violence (we watch Kynston beaten and bloodied, with no sense of satisfaction or ultimate moral redemption). The filmmakers missed a golden opportunity to exploit the subtle human side of a fascinating historical moment, instead creating an unconvincing hodgepodge of hackneyed aphorisms...
Everyday that this research is delayed is a day that patients of Parkinson’s, diabetes, Alzheimer’s and other diseases needlessly suffer due to misplaced moral misgivings. We think that the choice facing the ethics boards is easy; we hope that it is easy enough for the committees to get it right...
...objection to the use of torture is based mainly on our moral opposition to it. It is thoroughly inhumane and un-American. In its earliest days, our country established that cruel and unusual punishment was a violation of the rights of human beings. Let us not abandon that principle today. Though the Guantanamo inmates are not American citizens, we believe that they should still be entitled to the rights our national heritage claims are self-evident...
American patients should not have to cross the globe for any hope of treatment and risk being exposed to counterfeit medicine. American researchers should not have to leave U.S. labs to conduct promising stem cell research abroad. By taking the scientific and moral initiative in stem cell research, U.S. society can act to prevent both. Regulated and clinically responsible research in U.S. labs will fill the research vacuum from which phony clinics benefit at present. The American people, and indeed the world, call on the U.S. government for a committed and realistic approach to one of the promising medical innovations...
Finally, although the world is at fault because it is failing to live up to the standards of moral responsibility set forth by the UN Genocide Convention, much of the blame falls on Africa itself. The African Union has committed to sending military observers next week to the region, but their diplomatic response has been slower than that of the U.S. They must take this opportunity to establish Pan-Africanism as the prevailing doctrine of governance in the continent and demonstrate a bold commitment to the protection of black people’s human rights in the form of military...