Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vote to impeach Clinton is a verdict on his entire political life for consistently violating moral and ethical rules. JEFF SMITH Fort Lauderdale...
...Shaw's heroes are men of moral passion." (English...
...president and the people. His behavior showed him to be weak and arrogant when voters had hoped for someone who would be strong and honest. An electorate that condones deceit deserves the contempt that such deceit implies. Even liberals who rightly believe that there are only a few moral absolutes in life should agree that while we can all tolerate some fudging and shading, we can't condone a proven...
There are a few professors who, bless them, try to make this situation easier for us, like Professor Thomas Scanlon, who told his Moral Reasoning 33 class not to study over break. Also, professors and TFs who assign final papers due before winter break can be a big help in reducing the vacation guilt factor. You may resent them in December, but you'll thank them in January...
...moral I draw from this painful episode is this: Never postpone experiments that have clearly defined future benefits for fear of dangers that can't be quantified. Though it may sound at first uncaring, we can react rationally only to real (as opposed to hypothetical) risks. Yet for several years we postponed important experiments on the genetic basis of cancer, for example, because we took much too seriously spurious arguments that the genes at the root of human cancer might themselves be dangerous to work with...