Word: moralizers
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...succeed in sparking a discussion, but it turned out to be one primarily concerned with the propriety of mass e-mails and Masterly etiquette toward House residents in general. This community seems incapable of engaging in a serious and sustained discussion about the war. Instead, our polite aversion to moral gravity turns every such opening into a meta-debate until we are bored away from the subject altogether...
...course, this shouldn’t necessarily be surprising; Stone is infamous for using his films to suggest that free and unfree societies are morally equivalent. Indeed, he offered this assessment of Castro to a journalist at Sundance: “He’s a very driven man, a very moral man. He’s very concerned about his country. He’s selfless in that way.” That’s about as concise a piece of moral equivocating as you’re ever going to find...
...devotion to protecting a fellow Arab state from war. Arab leaders would avoid upheaval in a region where chaos has a way of spreading. The U.N.'s resolve would be rewarded at a bargain price. It's true that President Bush would sacrifice some of the strategic and moral logic of his war on terrorism if he let Saddam walk away unaccountable, especially if Saddam continued to make mischief from afar. But whatever the risks of compromise, the risks of war may be greater, so the White House isn't likely to rule out some kind of deal...
...other [SPECIAL ISSUE, Jan. 20], I was intrigued by the evidence that depression can worsen pre-existing diseases and may be implicated in the onset of others. I don't know, however, if pursuing happiness is the antidote to the seemingly widespread depression of our times. Having a moral purpose, ethics and values is what gives life meaning. Such a life will not always be happy--whose is?--but it will be worthwhile. And I believe the immunity-boosting value of living a moral life can have disease-fighting effects. RAISY WIESEL Montreal...
...Wade has left a tainted legal, political and moral legacy that has all but killed the most fundamental human right—the right to life. The Roe ruling hinged on the premise that sufficient evidence to determine when life begins doesn’t exist. Therefore, the Supreme Court affirmed the most radically liberal abortion laws of any country in the Western world...