Word: moralizes
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David B. Lat, in his column "Imposing Morality is Fun" (Nov. 28, 1995), commits two serious errors in his lessons on marriage and the moral nature...
...second assertion, however, that all laws involve an imposition of morality, is to me the more pernicious of the two. Lat argues that preventing people from getting a divorce has the same characteristic of moral judgment as every other...
...reading David B. Lat's column "Imposing Morality Is Fun" (Nov. 28, 1995) I was struck not so much by the supposition that "all laws rely on certain assumptions that are distinctly moral in nature," but rather by the morality of absolutism which his support for a ban on divorce demonstrates. "There are many different moralities in our pluralistic society. What we must realize is that some moralities are simply better than others." Since I do not particularly take issue with this claim. I would like to point out some of the problems I see with the position...
Araujo insisted that Secular Humanists are "tolerant of religion." At the same time, however, he maintained that his philosophy is "committed to the cultivation of moral excellence," a belief which, he conceded, might bring Secular Humanists into conflict with certain other religious principles. For example, he noted that Secular Humanists are also "committed to the protection of euthanasia and reproductive freedom...
Steinberg broached the subject of guilt by distinguishing among what he called the "three categories" of guilt--the "metaphysical," the "neurotic" and the "moral...