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...with Europe, where governments subsidize more of the costs and so control some of the risks. Italy and Germany forbid embryo storage; England limits doctors to implanting two embryos, or three if a woman is over 40. Sweden and Belgium allow only one. Many lawmakers are driven less by moral than medical concerns, for the health of mother and baby and the costs associated with premature and multiple births. Professional associations in the U.S. also favor limits but stress the need to treat each case individually; they recommend a maximum of five embryos implanted in a woman over...
Moreover, if the Argentines are attacked, they can probably count on more support, of at least the moral variety, than they have so far received from their Latin American neighbors. The Argentine generals were surprised and upset at the lack of backing they received at the United Nations Security Council immediately after their invasion, where they were condemned as aggressors. The situation would seem less clear-cut to other Latin American countries if the British started shooting in the South Atlantic. At least ten countries, including Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela, have expressed sympathy with Argentina's claim to the Falklands...
...think most, if not all, of the Moral Reasoning courses should be able to migrate without too much reworking,” Harris said...
What’s the point you ask (point meaning moral, lesson, end, etc, not pizza-point)? Well, honestly, there isn’t much of one. I guess you could say that I’m illustrating the fact that simple, material things, tracked through life can jog memories—something that I imagine is lectured on in pysch classes or “The Human Mind.” But usually these material things are more substantial—a grandmother’s pearl earrings, for example. It may be pathetic that I can trace good...
...some people are actually relieved by the threat of herpes. It's a good excuse for them to give up a life-style that had become unsatisfying." Yankelovich thinks the rise of herpes has revived feelings of guilt and the idea of disease as a form of moral punishment for promiscuity. Beneath the veneer of liberation, he says, "we have a residual guilt, and the idea that promiscuity breeds disease falls on prepared ears...