Word: moralisms
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...vaguely recall something from history class about the repeal of Prohibition and the subsequent taxation of liquor playing a significant role in our nation's recovery from the Great Depression. Perhaps if our leaders were willing to show some guts in the face of the so-called moral arguments against legalization, we could make that plan work for us again. Hugh Jones, Seattle...
...trying to transcend this idea of me as a burger guy... I’m not just the burger guy.”He has become captain of the football team and has discovered a second academic life in philosophy. He segues from talking about burgers to talking about moral theory and Kantian second-order thoughts seamlessly. He tells me about the scenes and jottings in his moleskine. He is as obsessed with David Foster Wallace as I am, and plans to read Infinite Jest and DeLillo’s Underworld this summer. “You just gotta...
...number of convictions made by the state’s drug task force—are indirectly responsible for the heroine’s conviction in “American Violet.” But Haney insists that “American Violet” will transcend its moral and political content. “One of the challenges of filmmaking in America is that generally, movies like ours get presented to the public as ‘important,’ and to the public it’s kind of like eating your vegetables...
...Harvard’s educational program makes an ambiguous contribution to the future net worth of its students, a Harvard degree remains a strong predictor of high earnings later in life—yet it cannot guarantee success. Attempts to place a dollar amount on human life offend our moral sensibilities; success, too, is insufficiently captured by the callousness of a quantity. Ultimately, it is the prerogative of each individual to secure success on her own terms, whether they be monetary or otherwise...
...general,” Benowitz says. “Any kind of alternative lifestyle that people don’t understand, people demonize to such a degree when there are so many worse things going on in the world. [The play] bashes you over the head with its moral, but its process of doing so gives you a lot of options to interpret what you are seeing,” Benowitz adds. “You find yourself rooting for the incestuous couple in the end. That [might] make you feel a little uncomfortable, but I think it will make...