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...accidents or train wrecks. Our war dead are honored because we deem them to have made a heroic sacrifice. Our memorials implicitly endorse and commemorate the causes and ideals that soldiers die for. Memorials do more than just express regret that a Harvard graduate was struck by a bullet or a cannonball...
...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...
Rodhe said he was struck by the media coverage of his incarceration: "Everybody was more amazed by my 10 days in jail than 3,000 people being killed...
...Angeles federal judge struck down as unconstitutional key portions of California's Proposition 187, the state's tough voter-approved initiative that seeks to deny public services to illegal immigrants. Among the sections that were knocked down: one that would bar illegal-alien children from attending elementary and secondary public schools. The state said it would appeal the ruling, which many observers believe is headed for the Supreme Court...
...reading David B. Lat's column "Imposing Morality is Fun" (column, Nov. 28), 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...