Word: ethicality
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...these meetings are very like house meetings in that other community. There are the same shifting factions, the same tendency for issues to get mixed up with one another, and the same gradual exhausting progressions towards unanimity--or at least the suppression of contrary voices. As in Borneo, an ethic that everyone can and should have a say on everything goes with a subtle manipulation by influential people. One particular feature struck me; when a dispute between two entrenched factions cannot be resolved, an elaborate compromise is worked out and pronounced forcibly by the chairman of the meeting...
...difficulty of the new doctrine, as with the old," writes Moynihan, "lies in the uses to which it is put. If man was once seen as too autonomous, the therapeutic ethic depicts him as too dependent. If the tendency was once to exaggerate rationality, it is now the opposite-to exaggerate dependency...
Rand said national politicians are guilty of "intellectual treason"--failure to perceive the American public's yearning for renewed sanctity of the work ethic and for an end to "the Welfare State, that dream of the philosophically illiterate...
Fischer described the present college system as "a training ground for a consumer, production-line ethic...
Most foreign students are a little shocked by the competitive American ethic that is exhibited in the pre-med syndrome. Gikas Hardouvelis '78, from Greece, says he never had to compete for anything before he came here, and says he finds it hard to accept competition as a way of life. Elena Granaglia '79, from Italy, says she just ignores the competition, and hopes to avoid becoming the kind of student that learns nothing but how to get good grades...