Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...images, Saramago crafts a profoundly cynical allegory for the condition of humanityand the fragility of the comforts we take forgranted. At the root of the story is not anexplanation for humanity's existence or diagrammeddirections on how to live virtuously: Saramago isnot constructing a sermon on the merits ofobservant, moral living and rational governments.Rather, at the heart of the novel lies a deeplydisturbing hunch that perhaps, in the end, life isblind. We depend on life having a purpose, adirection. The truly disturbing question Saramagoposes is, what if life really means nothing? Thisquestion is not a new one, but it never...
Indeed, the reason why Lyne's film works is that it focuses upon the potential of film to beautify even the grotesque. The effect is a little artificial, a spectacle designed to seduce the viewer into turning away from the moral problem of the film. In a time when films often try to say something about life, here is a film about the power of film. Irene Hahn...
Each year we graduate another class that bears the moral scars of final clubs. Each graduating class enters a world in which voices of morality are frighteningly silent. Two of my bosses have made sexual advances on female co-workers. I have friends whose parents are having affairs. We have a President whose astonishing lack of principle we know all too well...
Certainly, this type of objection could be taken further--what about refunds for people with moral objections to antibiotics? Throat cultures? Taking a temperature? But ultimately, abortion is a unique moral problem for medical institutions and their users. Allowing a refund for this single issue is unlikely to prompt a landslide of requests for refunds for other issues. Decisions involving collective action are difficult because they inherently require the consensus of numerous and disparate groups. However, in this case, UHS's policy represents a compassionate and reasonable compromise...
...Morality is something you have to do for yourself," Goldberg asserted. "Know thatyour ideas on morality are going to change. If youare going to take a moral stand...as we saw in theelection...then your house has to be clean. Eitheryou can walk on water or you can't. Someone iswaiting in the wings to bite you in the butt...