Word: moralizations
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...Freedom and Fear In TIME's interview with former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky [June 6], he criticized Amnesty International for lacking "moral clarity" and not differentiating between human-rights abuses committed by dictatorial "fear societies" and those carried out by democratic "free societies." Sharansky implied that the latter are more tolerable, but the distinction is meaningless to the victims. When asked about Israel's abuses of Palestinians' human rights, Sharansky accused Amnesty International of ignoring violations by terrorist organizations. Well, two wrongs don't make a right. Raymond Totah Fallbrook, California...
...drowsy semiconsciousness in audiences. Martha Clarke, a former modern dancer with the Pilobolus troupe, has traversed similar terrain in The Garden of Earthly Delights, echoing the Hieronymus Bosch painting that hangs in Madrid's Prado, and now in Vienna: Lusthaus, a fragment ed evocation of a city in moral decay and concealed emotional turmoil during the years leading up to World...
...another person who was not one's lawful spouse--whether for pleasure or money--as adultery. It matters not whether this act takes place in bed or in a laboratory. As to the legality of surrogate parenting, the law will keep floundering as long as it operates without a moral basis, and family life in our post-Christian society will continue to deteriorate. (The Rev.) Richard C. Tumilty St. Helena, Calif. Space Funerals...
...most contentious and important issue at Glassboro, N.J., was the same as the one at Reykjavík: Do the U.S. and the Soviet Union have a "moral" obligation to erect antimissile defenses? Or would such systems stimulate a new and dangerous arms race, in which one side's defenses would provoke the other side to proliferate offenses? In 1967 the U.S. argued that offense was "good" and defense was "bad." McNamara explained to a skeptical Kosygin that if both sides restricted their defenses, they could afford to limit their offenses; while each would need enough weapons to retaliate against...
Kosygin was furious. The blood rushed to his face, he pounded on the table, and he said, "Defense is moral; offense is immoral!" That was essentially the end of the discussion. The Soviet Union was by no means ready at that time to discuss an agreement banning defensive systems...