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With 686 students, Moral Reasoning 22: “Justice,” replaced Af-Am 10 as the College’s second most popular course...
...Sandel pointed out, the principled position that holds the potential for human life—such as an embryo—to have the same moral status as a person makes an outright ban on research cloning the only logical option. By voting for a moratorium, the members of the committee sidestepped the crucial issues surrounding the potential for life. If the cloning opponents had been consistent, they would have called for a moratorium on tooth brushing as well...
Catholic hospitals make the argument that providing the emergency contraceptive would go against their moral principles. They add that their denial would not prevent the victim from receiving such treatment at another hospital. While that is logically true, it is not a realistic option for almost all victims of sexual assault. A woman who would certainly be distraught, and possibly in shock, should not be forced to make an additional stop for basic care that can spare her months or even years of anguish. These victims do not have the energy, the time or the luxury to find a hospital...
...American public last heard from Hart in 1988, when his political career was stopped short by questions about his moral character...
...turn suggests that the United States occupies a privileged position in the international pecking order, and here we arrive at the most fundamental irritant: Unilateral policies, by reserving to oneself the right to act over the objections of one’s neighbors, presuppose one’s own moral superiority. This is the idea of American “exceptionalism;” it holds that the United States is different from other nations, that its democratic values and its military and political strength give it a special responsibility to safeguard the freedom and security of people everywhere...