Word: moralizers
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While I commend The Crimson’s balanced and on-point opposition on pragmatic grounds to Israel’s assassination of Sheik Ahmed Yassin (Editorial, “Assassination Doesn’t Work,” March 25), the moral critique that the editors put forth is unfounded and inaccurate. First, Israel had previously jailed Yassin, but he was freed in an unfortunate prisoner exchange with Jordan in 1997 after two Israeli Mossad agents were captured in Jordan following a botched assassination attempt. Second, arresting the spiritual leader of a militant group that virtually controls large areas...
...this is to say that Israel knows morally that “the proper place for terrorists is a jail cell,” but Israel cannot always place them there. Consequently, placing them in a graveyard can be morally justified when killing is more beneficial and less costly than leaving the terrorists alive and free to kill one’s own citizens. Moral decisions are not made lightly in Israel, and The Crimson is in no place to judge their ethics...
...cards that can be removed when they want to place a call. The political heads don't attend "martyrs'" funerals, as they used to, and their rare public appearances take place mainly on television. Before, an activist tells me, the leaders gave the broad mass of the movement moral support by appearing in public. Now they give moral support by hiding, because Hamas' people feel their leaders are safe...
...Diablo, the mostly middle-aged crowd (ages 25 to 66), clad in earth tones and comfortable shoes, settled on a tough one: Do nation-states with greater power have a greater responsibility to act ethically? "Is any act that a nation makes in its own self-interest ever moral?" asked Matt Waller, 40, a technical writer. "I say no." "Well, what's the nature of self-interest?" retorts housepainter Steve Crawford, 50. "Nations don't exist in a vacuum, certainly not in today's world." After two hours of discussion, no conclusion was reached, but that's not the point...
Philosophy is important for kids of all ages, Phillips says later, because "it gives them this great chance to sculpt their moral code, to figure out clearly who they are and who they want to be ... The whole idea is not that we have to find a final answer; it's that we keep thinking about these things." One question at a time...