Word: moralizations
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...Good Shepherd's Tale "How The Shepherd Saved The Seal," about the rescue of a wounded U.S. Navy seal on a commando mission in Afghanistan [July 18], was an excellent story. It's good to know that an Afghan shepherd in the rugged mountains was free to take the moral high road and provide safety to a U.S. serviceman in his country. Roger B. Stern Detroit...
...Good Shepherd's Tale "How the shepherd saved the seal," about the rescue of a wounded U.S. Navy seal on a commando mission in Afghanistan [July 18], was an excellent story. It's good to know that an Afghan shepherd in the rugged mountains was free to take the moral high road and provide safety to a U.S. serviceman in his country. Roger B. Stern Detroit
...reporter, no lobbyist, no aide, not even a messenger is allowed in the paneled conference room. THE JUSTICES ARE LEFT ALONE TO ARGUE THE LAW, THEIR PRINCIPLES, THEIR CONSCIENCES. Theirs is not an abstract debate: comfortably hazy concepts like 'liberty' and 'equality' must be applied to urgent social and moral dilemmas?abortion, the death penalty, obscenity, busing, reverse discrimination. The conferences provide a relentless test of conviction and reason; shallowness and bluffing are not long concealed. 'It is like being naked in a steam bath,' Justice Felix Frankfurter once remarked. 'You are totally exposed...
...encoded somewhere deep in the parental psyche to worry in whole new ways about kids of this age and wonder if their moral moorings will protect them from gusting temptation. That may be especially true for today's highly "parented" 13-year-olds, whose own moms and dads grew up largely ignorant of car seats, bike helmets, antibacterial soaps and childproof locks and who certainly misbehaved in far greater numbers than today's teens. Today's 13-year-olds are less likely to smoke, drink, do drugs, get pregnant, commit a crime or drop out of school than those...
...spending time with Chinese unions so they won't adopt a U.S. model with the attitude of "I've got mine, and the devil take the hindmost." The idea that the rich get richer and somehow wealth is going to trickle down is a bankrupt economic and moral theory...