Word: moralization
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Harvard psychology professor Marc D. Hauser, who co-authored the study, argues that from an evolutionary perspective, cognitive mechanisms involved in moral decision-making precede organized religion...
Hauser claimed the findings help explain recent studies indicating that people’s moral intuitions vary little across different religions...
...performance space in creative ways. Dunster Dining Hall provides an unforgiving stage: sound gets trapped in pockets, the ceiling height forces an odd lighting setup, and the dark wood paneling renders everything strangely somber. But the company manages to employ the staid dignity of the room to reinforce the moral severity of the town elders. At one point, they even co-opt one of the chandeliers—by far the most physically obtrusive element of the space—as a prop...
...course, Google’s moral high ground benefits from the fact that it sells a high-concept unmanufactured product. It may be a little harder for a manufacturing company like Nike to make a similar move, given the fact that many such companies employ low-paid factory workers who earn pennies a day. For example, a 2008 National Labor Committee report called into question the new Sesame Street dolls, which were allegedly made under sweatshop conditions. Just recently, the NLC released a report on the abject conditions in a Reebok sweatshop in San Salvador. According to the report, workers...
...Green spent several months obtaining a high school correspondence diploma and the Army granted him a "moral waiver" for his prior convictions. After graduating from basic training, Green headed to Ft. Campbell in July of 2005. Here, as in school, he developed a reputation for not being quite right in the head. There was no doubt he was smart, but he was a racist and a misanthrope. He remained socially awkward and unable to control his emotions or impulses. He did have some friends, but most of the platoon viewed him less as a class clown and more...