Word: morality
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...against environmentally unsustainable activities is not a popular political program, or some effort to “raise consciousness,” but rather a heightened sense of personal and collective responsibility. In today’s society, where the cult of the individual has amassed countless votaries, every moral or virtue comes expressed in self-actualizing language: We talk ceaselessly about human rights and self-interest and our “hope” to “change” the world. But seldom do we pause to reflect upon our duties—both to ourselves...
...however, didn’t try to swindle their way out of an uphill battle by offering society a sweetened pill. There was no way they could avoid recognizing that those committed to the male-only vote would be hurt by their movement. Instead, they decided to attack the moral and intellectual position of the anti-suffrage movement—and eventually...
...response to a recent questionnaire from a group of scientists, McCain said that “clear lines should be drawn that reflect a refusal to sacrifice moral values and ethical principles for the sake of scientific progress...
...gubernatorial debate, Palin said she could not support embryonic research on moral grounds...
...have imprisoned his daughter as a sex slave in a cellar for 24 years and fathered seven children with her, Austria has been locked in an emotional debate over what could cause such a crime. Some have claimed Fritzl's sadism to be a vestige of Nazism's moral corruption, others that the psychological strain of living for years under the threat of nuclear destruction was to blame...