Word: moralizers
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...this is the first case of this kind to come before an appellate court, the Supreme Court set a tasteless precedent for evading the moral and legal canons that forbid executing the insane. The number of mentally deranged convicts that can now be killed will be limited only by the effectiveness of the drugs that they can be made to take against their will. The very thought of promoting the use of the fruits of medical research for the facilitation and legitimization the destruction of life—besides being an utterly illogical proposition—should revolt even...
...serves as a tacit signal to death penalty hawks that it’s okay to develop calculated loopholes to traditional restrictions. And it is a silent nod of approval for a conception of the death penalty as an end in itself and as the cornerstone of a warped moral framework in which justice remains undone so long as the wrongdoer breathes...
...least one subject in depth. MIT’s humanities departments offer majors/minors in over thirty fields of study, amounting to an impressive range and number of subjects compared to other technical institutes. I hardly think that the Harvard science student who sleeps through the 25 required lectures on Moral Reasoning or Foreign Cultures can be considered any more well-rounded than his or her Southeast Cambridge counterparts
...Hasta la victoria siempre!”) As the quest for wealth is no more self-interested or self-gratifying than is the quest for power, Harvard’s budding businessmen, investment bankers, and CEOs do not deserve to be singled out for browbeating and moral outrage...
Meanwhile, at other schools, there is still the specter of conservatism. The specter looms, not because students of this generation are more selfish, but because they are unwilling to support a moral hierarchy that devalues their own blameless aspirations...