Word: moralizers
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...only goal is to beat the other guy. The ideal of principled leadership, so important to the founders of this country, is dead. The irony is that our leaders constantly worry what the Founding Fathers intended about abortion and gun ownership but have lost sight of the need for moral leadership. Roger Connolly Wading River, New York, U.S. Thank you, Joe Klein, for so eloquently expressing my frustration with elected officials who don't know how to stop politicking and start governing. Is it naive to think they can learn? That is what the American people want - except...
...seen his girl kiss another guy behind her drawn windowshade. His furious knocks on the building's door are answered by a stranger, who "said to my shock / 'You're on the wrong block.'" Finally he rushes back to the girl he now realizes was faithful. Happy ending. Moral: Learn to trust...
...research. Neither action was illegal: it wasn't until this year that South Korea barred payments for eggs, and there are no laws preventing subordinates from participating in a study they are conducting, although there are scientific ethical guidelines prohibiting such potentially coercive practices. However, the developments heightened the moral tensions crackling around a lab already facing concerns that its research could lead to full cloning of humans...
...beyond these overwhelming moral and ethical implications, as well as the inefficacy of the practice, the administration’s line directly contradicts U.S. law and its international obligations. The U.S. condemns torture under numerous international agreements: Article 5 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the “Convention against Torture” ratified by the U.S. in 1994. These agreements recognize torture as, “any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted...
...exercise power without conquest, and we sacrifice for the liberty of strangers. Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation.” By legalizing torture, the government belies these fine words and undermines the moral legitimacy of future humanitarian interventions...