Word: moralizers
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...that very reason that police chiefs in many communities feel a certain unease about assisting federal authorities in such an undertaking. While they want to fulfill their patriotic desire to assist the investigation of the Sept. 11 attacks, the police do not want to overstep their moral boundaries by violating our civil liberties. In fact, the police department of Portland, Ore. was the first to refuse to cooperate with federal officials when it decided not to participate in the interviewing of Middle Eastern immigrants because of the racial profiling it entailed...
...oppose abortion or believe that life begins at conception have campaigned vigorously against the research. But many Americans do not believe that a week-old embryo—an entity that does not have thoughts, feelings or the ability to experience pain—possesses rights or makes moral claims. These questions are not unprecedented. The procedure of in vitro fertilization, which has been used for decades to help infertile couples conceive children, similarly creates of scores of embryos which will eventually be destroyed. Research in therapeutic cloning has significant potential to alleviate suffering, and Congress should not prevent...
...Only a moral idiot would...
...searches in vain, too, for moral seriousness—for originality of thought—for a willingness to tackle controversies of any stripe. Rudenstine’s notion of taking a controversial stand seems to be supporting the idea of “diversity” in higher education by defending affirmative action. His idea of originality and moral seriousness seems to be quoting literary voices, drawing upon authors whose ability to communicate dwarfs his own, and using them to banal and platitudinous ends...
...which have made America safe for serious rhetoric for the first time, perhaps, since the close of the Cold War. But still, it is to his credit that in a series of speeches, Summers has done something that the verbally-challenged Rudenstine never did—namely, discuss the moral responsibility that the University bears to the United States, which is (according to Summers) similar to those borne by any American citizen. In the cloistered and reflexively anti-American world of academe, these are radical and refreshing words indeed...