Word: compassionate
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That’s the elementary moral reason for letting gays and lesbians marry—the logic that eighth-grade civics students can grasp and only the hateful can oppose. But the case for gay marriage goes far beyond such basic principles of freedom; it is grounded in the...
The alarm--and shame--is justified and long overdue, the manners gurus say. "We're reaping what we've been sowing for the past 20 to 30 years," says Corinne Gregory, founder of the PoliteChild. "Society has gotten increasingly callous and me-centered, and we're fed up with [the...
Compassion.
...former is its domestic counterpart, the belief that human suffering occurs in the everyday, literally in the spaces we share, and that it can be prevented by intelligent taxation and regulation. Whoever tells you this is class warfare is a class warrior of the worst kind: the point of compassionate policy is to regard people as people, without regard to class, having an equal claim on fairness and prosperity...
No word has been more regrettably hijacked in politics than “morality.” Somewhere along the line, its political meaning came to encompass only private morality, the morality of sleeping only with one’s spouse and, if possible, not being a lawyer. It is...