Word: moralizations
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...risk of sounding like one of those smugly insipid moralists who extrapolate from isolated incidents a widespread societal malaise, these two cases signify a worrying trend of moral abdication. The alcoholism excuse is a way of denying human agency, of viewing sin not as a choice, but as a pathology...
...unlimited love and justice, rather than the other way around. Why do we worship power? Why do we assume that total power is the most wonderful thing we could ascribe to God, even if it means compromising his fairness and his love? I believe that God is totally moral, but nature, one of God's creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind. Floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, disease germs, speeding bullets, they are all equal opportunity offenders. They have no way of knowing whether it's a good person or a bad person in their path. In fact, there's a passage...
...Callista Bisek, a Congressional aide 23 years his junior. And what of all the members of the Catholic clergy who have been exposed as child molesters since 2002? Their behavior surely jived spectacularly with their public espousal of the Catechism of the Catholic Church’s list of moral offenses, which includes "any sexual abuse perpetrated by adults on children or adolescents entrusted to their care." Not to mention that they voluntarily took a vow of celibacy, becoming esteemed champions of moral and sexual virtue as ecclesiastical leaders in their communities...
...much for peaceful chastity, when Google Trends reveals the quite shocking data that, internationally, the most search queries for "sex" originate from countries such as Pakistan, Egypt, and Iran. These are the same countries with cultures of aggressive sexual suppression that repeatedly make blistering attacks on the moral tribulations of "sexual liberation" in the U.S. Yet somehow, the U.S. doesn’t come in the top ten of that Google list, even as we are being "corrupted" every day by bikinis and accidentally-exposed breasts on television...
...avoid direct confrontation like your Moral Reasoning TF, try sending a polite but pointed e-mail first. A general e-mail directed to your entire entryway or floor will avoid coming across as a personal attack; just mention that the noise has been an issue and you require relative quiet for your thesis/sanity/orgy/whatever. A simple request for quiet should be effective, since most people realize that this is Harvard and not State U. At best, you’ll get an apology and things will quiet down, at worst you’ll be ignored, and the noise will continue...