Word: moralizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Craig remembers an incident in `Justice'--Moral Reasoning 22--when the section was discussing poverty. "Someone said if there was a poor man with 10 kids, and he needed money, then of course he would kill someone to get it. I didn't get mad, but I was saddened that she was so deluded...
...somehow found myself watching a group of Chicanos, apparently being supervised by white men and their pack of killer attack creatures. Rather than ruminate on the unpleasant moral implications, I started thinking how these undoubtedly underfed dogs would react to a stray trespasser...
...good thing that can be said of staid morality, however, is that it is the perfect target for parody--a fact that did not escape the wittier Victorians. Some of the brightest comedy ever written--for example, Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest--was forged during this era of moral gloom...
...plot is a fast-paced blend of theatrical parody, stock farce, and typical British silliness. Frederick (Lee Eichen), ex-apprentice to a gang of nice-guy pirates, is torn between loyalty to his former masters and his moral duty to turn them in. To complicate matters, he has fallen in love with the daughter (Lisa Zeidenberg) of the local Major General (Andrew Gardner) who is bent on the pirates' destruction. How does Frederick escape from this frightfully sticky wicket? Suffice to say that the resolution is as silly as it is stirring...
...said he was a "superb chair" and that he discouraged panel members from bringing prior moral judgments to their analysis of the available data...