Word: moralizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Schwartz said he does not believe that the United States should try to destroy the Soviet Union. "Our only moral objective is to secure our own liberty. Our total nuclear superiority over the Soviets will assure this ideal," said Schwartz...
...Nuclear arms serve the distictly moral purpose of preserving human life," he said...
Schwartz's argument is based on objectivism, which holds that man is the supreme end, man's own happiness is the moral purpose of his life, and harmony will be reached through each individual's struggle for economic success, said Linda Reardan, a graduate student of philosophy and member of the Objectivist Club...
...Primarily my interest is in Buddhist meditation....The Buddhist thing is if you see the Buddha on your path, kill him--if he gets on your way. Because if you get confused and get attached to the idea of it, cut it off, cut it down. Unlike the Moral Majority which would never cut down, never say their Christ is a stick of shit like Buddhists say Buddha is a stick of shit...
Similarly, we should not let the current debate about a single technological utopia such as SDI so dominate our thinking that we fail to evaluate its various dimensions in relation to alternative visions of the long-term future. A responsible moral approach to the nuclear future requires us to avoid large risks to the crucial values of survival and freedom that we must pass on to future generations, and to make continual efforts to reduce reliance on nuclear weapons whenever that does not increase risks. Such an approach requires hard thinking about uncertain probabilities and proportionate risks rather than succumbing...