Word: moralizations
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...avoid passing on an unhealthy obsession, it's wise to deal with weight and eating as health issues rather than moral ones, counsels Phyllis Cohen, a co-author of You Have to Say I'm Pretty, You're My Mother. And it's better to talk about bodies in terms of their strength and abilities rather than their appearance. If you're upset about gaining weight, Cohen urges, don't turn your anger inward. Self-loathing, most experts agree, is the root cause of eating disorders...
...have very serious criticisms of Amnesty. There is no moral clarity. It doesn't differentiate between what I call fear societies and free societies. In the democratic world, there are violations of human rights, but they are revealed and dealt with. In a fear society, there are no violations of human rights because human rights just don't exist. All citizens are deprived of those rights. Amnesty International says it doesn't support or oppose any political system, so it ends up with reports that show a moral equivalence between, for example, Israel and the terrorist regimes that attack...
...volumes back next to Great Expectations with a sense of regret. Part of what I love about Dickens novels is their combination of predictability and novelty. Innocents will be menaced, but theyll come through all right or else die heart-rendingly; a young woman will be a paragon of moral virtue; there will be a cast of dozens, representative of several levels of British society. But there will be in that cast one or two really unforgettable characters, and sometimes the innocents will be menaced in really novel ways. And because I love this combination of the familiar...
...become a moral wasteland in no small measure because we Catholics have done a bad job of forming our conscience and then living in accordance with it. Abortion, embryonic-stem-cell research, pornography and morally offensive "alternative" lifestyles would not have become so entrenched if we had given a hoot about living our faith. Paul Buckley Bennington, Vermont...
It’s no coincidence that these escapist stories are so popular with our generation. Their moral clarity and message of hope (dashed with realism) is the exact remedy for the confusing, threatening climate we live...