Word: moralizers
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...retro sound track--it's so Miami bright and Motown cool, you should watch it with shades on--but, more important, it has Leonard's sense of the imperfections of humanity. It has good guys and bad guys, but they share similar flaws and yearnings. The show's moral center is Karen's dad (Robert Forster), a former marshal who has a weekly card game with a group of ex-cons. Learning that Karen's new boyfriend may be involved in shady dealings, he just says, "Takes all kinds to make a world, sweetheart. The trick is to keep...
...engine for social programs that are essential to providing the least fortunate in our society with a decent standard of living. Millions of children in the U.S. live below the poverty line, often without basic health insurance, and millions more suffer from dangerous obesity. It is not only a moral imperative to help children lead happy childhoods and develop into productive young adults, but it is also an economic imperative. Progressive taxation makes it possible for the government to meet these imperatives...
John Rawls’ concept of the “veil of ignorance” gives us a powerful moral lens through which we can assess the treatment of society’s most disadvantaged people. His framework asks us to understand that anyone could have been born into an unhappy and unhealthy childhood, and that as a result, all members of society must do what they can to promote government programs—paid for by progressive taxation—to ensure that every American child has a chance in life...
...One’s moral values must remain detached from one’s political views. While I sympathize with all of those who do not feel that they have reached their ultimate goal of happiness, it would be wrong to let my personal emotions determine my responsibilities as an American citizen. I have always been taught to feel lucky for what I have—and always to give back to those with less than I. For this reason, I always have and always will be supportive of private charities and public service. But this is my personal responsibility...
...Coetzee's masterpiece Waiting for the Barbarians was published, I was in the U.S., living among people who took it as a surreal cowboy story set on some nameless frontier. For me, and for many white South Africans, it was an unbearably painful allegory about our daily lives and moral dilemmas, engaging us on a psychic level so deep and compelling that reading it left one dazed and hypnotized. In my judgement, Barbarians alone was enough to earn Coetzee literature's ultimate accolade, but there were many more great novels in his pen, foremost among them Life and Times...