Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moral obligation of all Americans to support generous levels of legal immigration. This country was founded on the notion of liberty and freedom for all. The hopes for streets of gold provided by economic freedom; for the open practice of private beliefs permitted by religious freedom; for the ability to speak one's mind and act upon it through democratic government--these are the ideals which fueled past immigration and still power the citizens we welcome to our shores today...
...reflected in demands to regulate popular entertainment. But civil libertarianism, which, I admit, many consider the opposite of common sense, reflects a belief that speech has not just instrumental but normative value, as an academic might say: In other words, we have not just a constitutional right but a moral right to think and speak freely, and badly if we choose...
First, the staff argues that the fetus does not have rights until it "has reached a state [in which it can] survive on its own or with the aid of machinery if extracted from the womb." But the staff argues that abortion will still be morally acceptable when medical technology becomes capable of saving very young fetuses, making them "viable" according to the ahove definition. The staff never resolves this apparent (and real) inconsistency. Using the argument that a fetus' viability determines its moral worth renders the staff vulnerable to the argument it anticipates: that if viability is the criterion...
Shortsightedness has moral implications for newspapers. Fact-checking has become almost obsolete because of the competitive race to publish exciting stories as soon as possible. Press releases have increasingly become unquestioned sources for news articles. Public relations representatives, knowing that the releases often are not scanned before being published, modify data to serve their purposes. They have the opportunity to rehash actual data to appeal to readers and gain attention...
Some Southerners also took issue with my assertion that for much of this century, most whites below the Mason-Dixon line exhibited moral and intellectual qualities that were rather bestial. This statement neither condemns all Southern whites nor excuses the North's racism. For most of the 20th century, almost all white Americans have held warped and loathsome racial views. But the South created a particularly hellish, suffocating environment for black Americans...