Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...courageous political act. It is one man weighing in against his government's war policy, at great potential cost to himself, far more effectively than he could ever weigh in with a vote--if he were old enough to vote. Refusal to serve is also a moral act in the finest tradition of civil disobedience; one man's refusal to serve could not possibly impinge upon the constitutional rights of another. Majority is said to rule in this country, but a minority of men may justifiably refuse to be tapped as a resource in an immoral course of action...
This spring, thousands of seniors and graduate students here and around the country are wrestling with this decision of whether to resist the draft. The CRIMSON supports those students who, for moral reasons, refuse to serve in the Armed Forces during the war in Vietnam...
...foot in the grownup world. Even the saying that this stage of life is not a disease but a part of growing up, is a description of how troubling adolescence is for him and for us, i.e., the grownups. He has an infinite capacity for devising bedevilling situations and moral conundrums for the conventional adult world which makes our problem in coping with him infinitely stressful...
Elder said that his proposal would apply to people who are drafted, volunteer, go into Peace Corps or Vista or other such programs, or "who for conscientious or moral reasons choose to go to prison...
After debating the moral, legal, and military sides of the issue, ten students said the soldier should disobey orders, four said he should obey, and two were undecided...