Word: moralizer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Simon DeDeo is saying that one should not pass moral judgment on the situation in Kosovo without familiarity with the facts, then I wholeheartedly agree. But instead of urging people to learn about Kosovo so that may make an informed moral choice, he simply throws up his hands and implies that judgment is impossible or irrelevant...
This piece betrays a moral apathy and intellectual laziness that has characterized much editorial coverage of civil conflict in this decade. As a piece of journalism, it has little worth: it neither explains the situation to people, nor does it take a well-reasoned moral stand, either for or against the bombing. So what is the point of writing it? To say that the ordinary person isn't in a position to make a moral judgment and shouldn't bother trying? And that the war is entirely in the hands of ordinary people, beyond the influence of leaders...
...while we stand by refusing to make moral decisions, basking in our intellectual sophistication or confused helplessness, people die. DARRYL C. LEE '01 05/04/1999 Editorial 10 Higher Minimum Wages Will Lead to Labor Ceiling To the editors...
...content of the article itself was truly disturbing. The article seemed to make two main points. First, that for one who lacks any significant knowledge of the situation in Kosovo, a moral judgment of any kind is impossible and second, that the outcome of the war will be the result of an aggregate of the individual decisions of thousands of ordinary people ("It [the war] will be fought and decided, as war has always been fought and decided: town by town, hill by hill and house by house...
...Simon DeDeo is saying that one should not pass moral judgment on the situation in Kosovo without familiarity with the facts, then I wholeheartedly agree. But instead of urging people to learn about Kosovo so that may make an informed moral choice, he simply throws up his hands and implies that judgment is impossible or irrelevant...