Word: selfishnesses
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...that Washington plunged so deeply into the war to exploit the oil that has recently been discovered off the shores of South Viet Nam. A majority said that the U.S. could have won the war but chose not to do so for its own perverse and selfish reasons...
...first of these six stages, which Kohlberg established after interviewing a cross section of youngsters about imaginary moral problems, "right" behavior is based on fear of punishment. In the second stage, the criterion is selfish need -as in the case of a child who believed a man should steal a lifesaving drug for his wife because if she dies "there'll be no one to cook his food...
...nonviolent activity in this country involves either a long-term partial commitment or an extremely short-term full commitment, as in the few hours of a demonstration. The instances of complete devotion to a cause are rare here, perhaps because, as it is popular to suggest, we are a selfish, private people. But perhaps also because we have come to expect instant results to our actions. In a country where we can pick up a telephone rather than wait for a letter, where we can consult a computer for the results of an election minutes after the polls close...
...Christ, he said, shows that "God's mercy must make itself known in history, so that man in history may become fully conscious of his guilt and his redemption." Though choices in a sinful society are morally ambiguous, a sensible effort must be made to balance conflicting, selfish powers...
...hope you published "Mirror, Mirror" [March 15] solely to allow us commoners a rare insight into the hideous and selfish lives of the so-called "Beautiful People." Princess Pignatelli would better be called an expert in deception. When one is unable to focus on the plight of the world, then I fear...