Word: moralizers
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...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...
...CRIME, Feb. 15], ECPAT International, a nongovernment group committed to ending commercial sexual exploitation of children, would like to explain why extraterritorial laws are essential for protecting the rights of children. Under the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child, children are guaranteed the right to physical and moral integrity. In 1996, 122 governments, including the U.S., committed themselves to eradicate sexual abuse of children. We sincerely hope that the American government and citizens will continue to implement the 1994 law, which allows for prosecution of Americans who sexually abuse children in other countries. Children are our future. They...
...tough guy teaming with Mark Wahlberg's sweetly anguished type to battle a local triad. Foley (After Dark, My Sweet), who choreographs the snazziest New York car chase since The French Connection, specializes in close-up portraits of people sweating on the inside. But no matter how dank the moral dilemma, Chow will never break a sweat. In Hong Kong or New York, he's just too cool...
That's the good news. The bad news is that a subtle, often unconscious, bias toward ourselves, our kin and our friends can narrow altruism and color moral judgments. "Deception and hypocrisy are very human devices for conducting the complex daily business of social life," wrote Edward O. Wilson in Sociobiology (1975), which brought the new paradigm to the world's attention...
Robert Wright is author of The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life