Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mohandas Gandhi used the hunger strike. Union organizer Cesar Chavez used the hunger strike. Last Friday, a few members of Harvard's Ethnic Studies Action Committee (ESAC) joined this moral crew, skipping the daily offerings of Harvard Dining Services in an effort to protest the absence of ethnic studies courses at Harvard...
...dead, after all, and will remain dead; people who bomb Federal buildings and murder children are all extremists. It is simply an issue of definition. It is irrelevant that they are white supremacists, since we need no more evidence than their most recent action to convict them of moral decrepitude...
What kind of activities will the Hippocratic Society be involved in? We can only imagine. Here are some suggestions: "Acts of Omission, Acts of Commission." A lecture on how to use interesting distinctions in moral philosophy to justify (read: rationalize) sabotaging your enemy's lab project...
Today, juries are meticulously purged of jurors with any outside knowledge of the case, and--popular sentiment to the contrary--jurors are supposed to follow the law not their moral senses...
Because of this little-noted evolution, can we say that juries have lost their original purpose? As bodies which represent a community's moral sense and know the trial participants, juries are well suited. But if blind justice given by impartial legal experts is what we want, how about those supposedly impartial, supposedly expert, judges...