Word: moralizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stone still feels that the Saikewicz decision was a good one. "I think this was necessary in an historical sense," Stone says. "Doctors were not aware of the moral and ethical issues involved," in making the decision whether or not to withhold treatment. Stone feels that the Saikewicz case forced doctors and nurses to confront these issues...
...purchases for services any different, any less related to the tasks of the University? I believe you malign the moral seriousness of the problem faced by these textile workers. Very much to the point, Harvard's decision to allow students to opt out of paying for UHS abortions represents an institutional decision that this issue was serious enough to be put before the Harvard community. At the very least this approach should be pursued with the Stevens issue...
Recent discussions of moral responsibility in investments and purchases have neglected a very fundamental moral issue at stake here: How much control do people have over the conduct of institutions shaping their lives? I am sure you would agree that furthering respect for democratic decision-making is one of the most basic educational goals Harvard can pursue...
...Harvard Purchasing Department can make no claims to a clearer assessment of moral issues surrounding Stevens and Nestles purchases, nor can they decide whether students would prefer non-Stevens sheets at a few pennies more. By making quantity and quality alone the basis for purchases, and thus excluding the social and moral issues users care about, the University has gone far to repress "the reasoned expression of ideas and arguments." As you say, "universities that violate this social compact do so at their peril...
Finally, Harvard serves very noble educational goals in integrating students' social and moral concerns into its administration. For one, this encourages an awareness and discussion of social problems lying outside the campus. This goal cannot merely be pursued in the classroom, as the Institute of Politics and Phillips Brooks House attest. Second, your own writing laments the fact that labor interests play so little role on the campus: "Colleges and universities too have a role to play in the labor field that up to now has been largely neglected...meager contacts seem particularly striking when they are compared with...