Word: moralizer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...host of complex and timely issues: intolerance, society's attitudes toward gays and the pressure to conform, the use of violence as a means of confronting one's demons. Jesse Dirkhising's death gives us nothing except the depravity of two sick men. There is no lesson here, no moral of tolerance, no hope to be gleaned in the punishment of the perpetrators. To be somehow equated with these monsters would be a bitter legacy indeed for Matthew Shepard...
...treatment of research animals is understandably an area of great moral contention and is certainly worthy of an informed, rational debate within the public sphere. Yet, Justice Department's actions are counterproductive to the type of dialogue that achieves real and lasting change...
...suggest that in some far away epoch, those mores that forbid mixed-sex rooming groups may also crumble. We would hardly applaud such a development. We cling to the out-dated belief that there are some rules of propriety that are, in fact, beneficial to society and the moral life of the individual. Those that protect basic considerations of privacy--the right to establish a sphere devoid of any calculations of sexual dynamics--are worthy of preservation...
Only two questions remain in the air. Why would anyone think that Sharpton was an appropriate guest at Harvard? And why did so many members of the Law School and others in the Harvard community lack the moral courage...
...prefrontal cortex develop very similar problems, often quitting their jobs, gambling away their savings and alienating family and friends. But in those cases, the people still seem to know the difference between right and wrong. By contrast, the two young adults never seemed to have developed a moral compass in the first place...