Word: morality
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...fought. I wrote in the newsletter and I fought. It didn't do any good because everybody was scared sh--less of her. But I'll give Betty credit. I don't know if you ever met her. Bombastic, rude, self-centered. Brilliant. And you know what? Fundamentally a moral person and about 20 years later she apologized to me in public. It took a lot. She said, I was wrong...
...some emotional difficulty when they are forced to kill and when those around them are killed—“they’re not murderers, they’re warriors—that’s part of their job...and if you’re a moral person, that should bother...
...McCain is willing to pay. Indeed, torture isn’t the only issue on which McCain is willing to flip-flop. After criticizing Reverend Jerry Falwell for being an “agent of intolerance,” McCain delivered a commencement speech at the “Moral Majority” leader’s Liberty University, reaching out to religious conservatives. After claiming he “cannot in good conscience support” President Bush’s tax cuts, Senator McCain recently voted to continue some of the tax cuts in the $70 billion...
...even the most ardent skeptic or even atheist—to whom this tolerant regime agnostic to moral or religious questions might first seem appealing—must confront difficulty when this “tolerance” applies to sects not historically seeped in such cultural relativism...
...divergent and incompatible beliefs but accordingly forbids intolerance; and the other, which sees no reason to privilege any belief, even the objective good of “tolerance,” and puts “tolerance” and “intolerance” on equal moral footing...