Word: moralizer
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...dogs on the last legs of their lives—he told me that he doesn’t accept “euthanasia” for humans or animals as inevitable. And he sees in animal cruelty the same enemies that conservatives confront in all spheres of society: moral relativism, a devaluing of life, and self-centered materialism posing as a code of ethics...
...then, asks Scully, are conservatives, normally so willing to view issues in moral terms and to legislate accordingly, silent in the face of institutionalized animal abuse...
...moral convictions of such men did not require abstract theories of rights for support. Nor do Scully’s. “We are called to treat [animals] with kindness,” he writes, “not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don’t; because they all stand unequal and powerless before...
...this moral basis sounds simple, its implications are radical. The New York Times called Scully’s book, “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy,” “horrible, wonderful, [and] important” and, reading his descriptions of factory farming, it’s easy to see why. A journalist by training, Scully traveled to a typical industrial hog farm in North Carolina—owned by the nation’s largest pork producer—and documented what...
...Gary L. Singleterry ’70, Harvard’s punter, says that there was no element of disappointment in the Game’s final outcome, since no one had given the Crimson much of a chance. “For us to tie was a great moral victory. It was phenomenal,” he recalls.Peter D. Lennon ’70, the writer of the 1968 Game story in The Crimson, remembers frantically taking notes from the press box. Despite the feeling of detachment that usually comes with sports reporting, he says that all objectivity melted...