Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weighed my responsibility to help preserve my community in war-time; I considered in what manner I might effectively rationalize killing; I questioned whether I could subordinate myself to the authority of the state in making moral decisions; I considered the financial and emotional consequences of my decision for those personally close to me and for myself; I consulted the teachings of Christ and Augustine and the writings of Franz Jaegerstadter, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Franziskus Stratmann, O.P. [Dominicans]. I weighed all these considerations--shot off my mouth about each of them several times to friends and advisors and often...
...thorough investigation by the government, which every CO anticipates, puts a real premium on a thoughtful handling of the difficult questions and moral and logical problems which Form 150 poses...
...belief." It then defines religious training and belief: "...in this connection [it] means an individual's belief in a relation to a Supreme Being involving duties superior to those arising from any human relation, but does not include essentially political, sociological, or philosophical views or a merely personal moral code...
...with the belief that the mutilated body of someone of great value lies buried in the stinking trash. In English, there has been no one like him since Swift, and in French, there has been no one like him at all. Mad doctors both-in their different ways. Only moral simpletons who have not understood that pity is the cruel emotion will fail to grasp the root of the rage of either...
...pure black markets, in contrast to the rackets, reflect some moral tastes, economic principles, paternalistic interests, and notions of personal freedoms in a way that the rackets do not. A good example is contraception. We can change our policy on birth control in a way that we would not change our policy on armed robbery. And evidently we are changing our policy on birth control. The usury laws may to some extent be a holdover from medieval economics; and some of the laws on prostitution, abortion and contraception were products of the Victorian era and reflect the political power...