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...Modernizing Morality Nancy Gibbs nicely delineated the different kinds of sins that plague our society [March 24]. Believers and nonbelievers have a moral duty to do what is right, an obligation that stems not wholly from religion but more from a universal moral law. There is a higher voice that speaks to all of us every time we commit a deed that is contrary to our place in the world. Why not do the best we can while we are here on earth? John J. Pino, Newtown Square, Pennsylvania...
...administrative judge, facing a moral dilemma of greater than medical proportions, once asked his defendant, "What is truth?" The famous silence of that defendant's reply might have been an answer, an eloquent one in fact. Truth standing right there, knowable, yet, as then by Pilate, it was, for reasons of expediency, or money, ignored. Yet the truth did win out. It's a lot like this in surgery now. Our consultants might have conflicts, but sooner or later they will have to come back to us; if you really are a doctor, the truth is where...
...like Darfur is more conventional peacekeeping based on an agreement between the parties, but trying to do peacekeeping plus protection plus justice is too demanding for the system to bear and it ends up succeeding at none of its goals." Others contend that in cases of humanitarian crisis, the moral imperative to intervene remains, but acknowledge Darfur has exposed shameful limits to international will, and unity, in the service of those concerns. "It's incredibly depressing," says David Mozersky, Horn of Africa director for the International Crisis Group. "The international system has failed...
...start investigating whether in the next century technology may offer a solution to our security that does not rest on the prospect of mass and mutual death," noted the Washington Post. "It is the product of Ronald Reagan's peculiar knack for asking an obvious question, one that has moral as well as political dimensions and one that the experts had assumed had been answered, or found unanswerable, or found not worth asking, long...
...Science fiction is so far the only genre that has truly captured this novel morality play. The great dystopic and apocalyptic tales, such as Orwell’s “1984”, Huxley’s “Brave New World”, Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451”, and Vonnegut’s “Cats Cradle”, are all written as science fiction. Our power to utterly destroy ourselves or our world through nuclear war or other man-made mishaps has only been comprehended and communicated through science...