Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nice to know that Caustic Sen, and hopefully others, feel compelled to at least consider the social implications of a finance career. I only hope that some considering that track will recognize the flimsiness of the humanitarian argument. The moral good of most investment bankers' work is purely incidental. While finance has helped many people and communities, it has also hurt many in the interest of making a few people richer...
...recipe of life is simple," Sonn said. "Do what is moral rather than what is expedient...
...Knotts, executive vice president of the Colorado-based International Hunter Education Association, says, "Hunter education has evolved beyond safety to responsibility and ethics and wildlife conservation." Among the states, only Alaska lacks mandatory instruction; minimum instruction is usually 10 hours, and much of the teaching is devoted to the moral issues raised by hunting...
...link between the food on the plate and the living, breathing, warm-blooded creature (in the forest or in the commercial gulag-cum-slaughterhouse) is getting thinner by the year, to the point of metaphysical disconnect. The disconnect is a form of stupidity or of moral carelessness. How can anyone object to hunting but also eat meat raised in misery for the slaughterhouse? Who has clean hands? Surely not the consumers of the 38 million cows and calves, the 92 million hogs, the 4 million sheep and 7 billion chickens killed last year, to say nothing of the animals slaughtered...
Week after week, the sanctity of human life, the moral niceties of medical ethics, the nobility of self-sacrifice. After all that tenderness, it's easy to see why bright young Peter Berg, one of the Chicago Hope ensemble, would want to try a little purgative transgressiveness...