Word: moralizers
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...policy makers is to appropriately narrate unfolding events, beginning with the “motivation” for the invasion: the grotesque Palestinian terrorist atrocity on Passover. Thus, early on in the Israeli assault the New York Times reminded us that “[t]here is no moral equivalence between the indefensible evil of suicide bombings and Israel’s military actions to defeat terror,” somehow forgetting to ask how proportionality and institutional capacity for oppression bear on such considerations. More crucially, it forgot to ask whether the ongoing siege is simply...
While I would have a hard time arguing that Spelling imbedded some greater moral message in his series, the show had a lot to offer its teen and pre-teen audience in terms of life education, especially during its early years when nothing else like it existed. Dramas that incorporated children showed them only as they related to the adults in their lives—they weren’t people, they were props to develop the adult characters. Sitcoms like “Full House,” “Saved By The Bell?...
...lessons of moral philosophy comprise a different kind of stimulant, one that can stir us to better ways of thinking and living. And some of the more practical lessons derived from moral philosophy are distilled into the maxims that we hear throughout our childhood. The problem is that neither philosophical inquiry nor sterile maxims are effective at delivering their messages in easily digestible ways. Tell an impatient driver that “patience is a virtue” and you’re likely to get some road rage upside your head...
...South Africa's Nelson Mandela is internationally regarded as an unimpeachable moral giant today, but it's worth remembering that his African National Congress fought a 29-year guerrilla war against the apartheid regime which at one point included a series of terrorist attacks on civilians in shopping malls and bars. Yet it was with the same organization that the white minority regime finally negotiated the transition to democratic majority rule...
...said it was essential that our support be moral, and that it be tangible as well,” he said...