Word: moralizes
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...most famously seen with our torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere. Is it the best training for men and women who choose a military career to feel, as one of your subjects says, "basically forced to do things outside of what would normally be considered to be moral or ethical"? Another probable cause of the suicides: maybe recruiters feel overwhelming guilt for being part of a system that sends recruits into a horrible, senseless war that they themselves experienced. I hope your story helps make some changes in this system. Dolores Perez Priem, San Francisco...
...Alex Perry's story falsely characterizes the ANC as being in political and moral decline. Granted, South Africa is in the process of democratizing, and mistakes have been made, but the beauty of democracy is that it is inherently self-correcting. The formation of splinter groups such as the Congress of the People is a clear sign that, 15 years after liberation, South Africa's democracy still works and that the ANC will never monopolize power at the cost of democracy. Tshilidzi Marwala, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA...
...another reason to be concerned about the trip is that one of its main purposes - to lend moral support to the diminishing number of Christians in the region - just isn't going to work. (See the five things the Pope must do on his Mideast trip...
...Final Solution. But the same speech hit several sour notes in the ears of Jewish leaders, as the Pope failed to cite anti-Semitism as a cause of the genocide. Instead, he wondered if Christianity wasn't ultimately Hitler's final target, and summarily disposed of the complicated moral question of German society's "collective responsibility" by blaming the systematic extermination of millions of Jews and other innocents on the deeds of a "ring of criminals." The Bavarian native concluded: "Our people was used and abused as an instrument of [the Nazis] thirst for destruction and power." (Read a story...
...much to mitigate the short-term effects of climate change. But it should be remembered that, although the most salient concern of the legislation in the U.S. is to quickly lower the aggregate amount of emissions with hurting the economy, this should not be the only concern. The moral and cultural dimensions of climate change must be also addressed. The only way up from the global fall from grace is to work together and consider what’s fair and important in the long...