Word: unjust
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stage 3, a child is "good" to win approval; by Stage 4, the law is respected and upheld out of a simplistic concern for law and order. Those who progress to Stage 5 believe that the purpose of the law is to preserve human rights and that unjust laws should be changed. In the opinion of those who reach Stage 6, unjust laws may be broken, because morality is grounded not in legality or in specific rules like the Ten Commandments but in abstract principles of justice and respect for the individual. At this level, a 16-year-old told...
What wonder then that pure blind rage-the feeling that " there is some shit I will not eat " -drove many into an action that both unjust and stupid...
...Your story on tenure for professors [May 10] attributes to me the pointless sentimentality that it would be unjust to let a professor go ten years after he gets tenure because by then he has a house and kids in school...
...West Point last year when he was charged with dereliction of duty. Later, criminal charges against him were dropped because there was no evidence that he had deliberately intended to cover up the massacre. When informed of his demotion, Koster broke silence to call the punishment "unfair and unjust...
...when he fulfilled that initial purpose of his life by winning the championship, he said, "I'm free to be who I want to be." He has maintained that freedom; however, one wonders at what cost. When I asked him if he felt he had had to pay an unjust price to maintain his integrity, he said, "I've paid no unjust price to be who I want to be. A cheap price. I haven't paid nothing...