Word: moralizer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Americans feel a strong affinity. These wars have also shown that the U.S. can't fix everything that goes awry in the world, and in fact, often makes the situation worse. While this is a blow to our national pride and foreign policy, nothing compares to the sense of moral chaos that people feel is at home...
Very little seems more wrong or more evil than children killing children. One could easily conclude that this shows that there is something very much wrong with our country's moral fabric. But bringing literal fabric into the picture requires a mental leap of some magnitude, and as a cure for our countrys woes, is insultingly simplistic...
...dilemma that the students faced was the feeling of individual moral obligation to obtain medical assistance for their intoxicated guest versus their concern for any personal repercussions or consequences (disciplinary or legal) they or the individual might face. This is an uncomfortable and difficult situation. Yet, the effect and consequences of inaction could be far more devastating...
...Some moral debts to history should not be canceled. Material amends may be part of symbolic amends, but the goal of the "tally" should not be to reach zero indebtedness but to affirm it. HOWARD F. STEIN Oklahoma City...
...MORAL DEBTS OF HISTORY...