Word: moralizers
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...Truman's order to drop the atom bomb brought a decisive end to the war in the Pacific, but it marked the beginning of an era of dread and controversy from which we have never escaped. The issues that preoccupy us now as much as ever are not only moral ones about when it is acceptable to use weapons of mass destruction but also existential ones about the nuclear threat to life on earth...
Poets are the new pundits. As the debate over Iraq mounts, verse more than ever is the genre of choice. What got Tom Paulin into trouble is getting others a lot of attention: harnessing the moral power of words to mine the political significance...
...terrible freedom of war - with its rush of animal adrenaline, its wild all-is-permitted, its violent necessities - inverts the moral order. Killing, normally forbidden, is suddenly sanctioned, even deemed heroic. Stakes are high. So is fear. Paranoia drifts on the wind like mustard gas. Disagreement may look like treason. Due process may appear to be an unaffordable luxury. The First Amendment may seem optional. The peacetime fail-safe checks and balances (Congress and courts keeping the presidency honest) may strip themselves down to a military principle - deference to the chain of command, and to the Com-mander in Chief...
...surface, this makes sense. But think about it: if God really cared about starving children in Africa, would they be starving? If you look at God’s moral batting average through history, he’s hitting way below the Mendoza line...
When I took Moral Reasoning 22, “Justice,” my sophomore year, Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel asked the students—more than 600 people in Sanders Theater—whether they would rather live on a farm in Kansas or lose one of their hands. The overwhelming majority indicated that they would rather lose a hand. I couldn’t believe it. It’s your hand! I guess the rationale is that even without one of your hands you can still do cool things like go clubbing and see foreign...