Word: moralizers
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...were never as impressed with him as they were with his boss and mentor, Skilling. It was Skilling who provided the strategic vision behind Enron, who transformed its old gas-pipeline culture into a swaggering, rule-breaking, dealmaking cult that ultimately mislaid its analytical skills and perhaps its moral compass. Skilling, a Harvard M.B.A. and former McKinsey & Co. consultant, had a high-wattage intellect that always impressed. Even when he was a student, people who met him knew he would do something...
President Bush’s use of “axis of evil” was not an oversimplification because the moral lines of the war on terror are so stark...
...most limited when they are most necessary.) His arguments against our military intervention in Afghanistan appeal both to our practical sense—the idea that our “war on terrorism” did not succeed in any of its stated goals—and to our moral character—that Afghan civilian deaths have been called “collateral damage,” the same term used by Timothy McVeigh to describe children who died in the Oklahoma City bombings...
...ticking bomb scenario” is a permutation of a classic moral dilemma. Suppose a bomb in a secret location were set to go off, killing hundreds. Would it be justifiable to make a terrorist disclose the bomb’s location by torturing...
...photograph releases will maintain the dignity of the prisoners. If these measures are not taken, America’s foreign support is sure to grow weak. The U.S. must act as a benevolent captor, not a retributive or malicious one, if it wishes to maintain the moral high ground...