Word: moralizations
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...victim on September 11, and that gave it the moral authority to drive the war on terror, with Europeans in support despite their misgivings over the Bush administration's failure to combine it with a political strategy to isolate the terrorists by defusing some of the key sources of Muslim anger at the U.S. - particularly the occupation of Iraq, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - which are exploited by al-Qaeda to rally support. Many European leaders believe the Iraq war has fueled rather than doused the fires of jihad. And March 11 in Madrid has given the Europeans a greater...
...acknowledges the support she received from friends and patrons. “But moral support unfortunately doesn’t pay the bills,” she says...
...there is a moral distinction to be made between using embryos for research and implanting them in a human womb, then the former is far worse. In the case of full-blown cloning, scientists are at least creating a life; but in the case of cloning-based stem cell research, they are merely creating life to destroy it. Embryos used for research have the same genetic structure as the human organism; they are analogous to fertilized eggs, capable under the right conditions of developing into fully functioning human beings...
...Harvard wants unabashedly to pursue stem cell research with all of the ethical baggage that carries, it should say without equivocation why it does not find the religious, ethical and moral objections to this kind of research to be valid. Harvard’s behavior to date, however, suggests that it is already confident in its answers to moral questions—namely, that such questions are not important and need not be seriously considered before proceeding—and that it merely needs to convince Americans of the intrinsic rightness of its position by presenting them with a fait...
...about representations of the single worst attack ever perpetrated against the U.S. Yet people who reflexively loathe any kind of censorship are inclined to countenance 9/11 self-censorship because the demand comes from the families and the fire fighters who, on this issue, claim to have a higher moral standing...