Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Already the book has drawn Kramer into an exchange with an outraged moral conservative in the pages of the New York Times. But for antidivorce activists to make Kramer an icon for modern self-indulgence would be to miss the mark. Beneath the book's air of moral relativism lies a low-key celebration of austerity, even a quiet, almost covert conservatism. The closest thing to a central message is the advice Kramer gives during one of the book's fictional case studies: "The problem is not your choice; the problem is how you live with that choice...
...validate the anguished self-absorption that has made baby boomers so good at generating revenue for psychiatrists and so bad at staying married. A half-century ago, people didn't sit around wondering whether their spouse was maximizing their self-actualization. In fact, thanks to the lingering Victorian moral climate, most didn't even consider divorce a live option. (What a time saver!) Nowadays, as Kramer himself suggests, it is almost normal for married people to be quietly dogged by "the constant sense of having chosen poorly." Well who can blame them, with the question "Should You Leave?" blaring...
...favorite University administration forgot to make a place to park your bike. They put in one rack, but on Thursday afternoons when 'The Bark' turns into section central, you need more room than that. And to make matters worse, friendly Harvard bureaucrats are turning the bike battle into an moral match. Leave your bike locked any place but the over-flowing rack and you get a note siting some state code and imploring you to show more respect...
...team that has been held scoreless in three of their first seven games, these goals were vital, both for the win and for the moral of the team...
...physician aid-in-dying the most moral, compassionate and reasonable option to relieve suffering among the terminally ill? Would this new right provide a greater degree of control and freedom to a dying individual, or would it only weaken our society's respect for life? Can alternative approaches to dying allow one to experience a good death? More fundamentally, do our lives ultimately belong to us or to the larger community in which we are deeply rooted...