Word: moralizations
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...liberal offered a few mild gibes at Hollywood liberalism. He called the Oscar show ?the one night of the year when you could see all your favorite stars without having to donate any money to the Democratic Party.? He told the audience that, to many people, Hollywood was ?a moral black hole, where innocence is obliterated in an endless orgy of sexual gratification and greed.? (Pause for gentle laughter.) ?I don?t really have a joke here. I just thought you should know a lot of people are sayin? that...
South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds had to decide whether to side with the Purists or the Pragmatists in the Abortion Wars. His decision to sign the state?s dramatic new abortion bill means the Purists have prevailed, and the moral, political and legal argument surrounding abortion rights is about to turn a corner...
...shrink it, change its shape, and over time promote a ?culture of life? that would view abortion less as a right than a tragedy, perhaps eventually a crime. That gradual approach requires a certain level of hypocrisy-or at least a willing suspension of moral belief-because if you truly equate abortion with murder, it?s hard to settle for slowing it down rather than stopping it altogether, right away: the Purist approach...
...make our margin of error as small as humanly possible. Too many in the Bush Administration, alas, did the opposite. They sent far too few troops, were reckless in postinvasion planning and turned a deaf ear to constructive criticism, even from within their own ranks. Their abdication of the moral high ground, by allowing the abuse and torture of military detainees, is repellent. Their incompetence and misjudgments might be forgiven. Their arrogance and obstinacy remain inexcusable...
...curriculum reform for Harvard students is necessary because the current core curriculum has become an impediment to a liberal arts education. The distinctions drawn between core and departmental courses are inexplicable and irrational. My daughter’s multidisciplinary bioethics course does not count towards the core requirement of Moral Reasoning. Her history of science course on the nineteenth century social response to Darwinian evolution does not count as a History A or B. Her three demanding, higher-level French courses do not count towards either the Foreign Cultures or the Literature and Arts requirements of the core. Instead...