Word: ethicality
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...quite. For behind his Brillo beard is not only a weak chin but a vague ethic. The killer beast refuses to let his mercenaries enjoy any of the village sports: rape, pillaging, torture. Instead, he insists on discipline and mollifies a local priest (Per Oscarsson), all because of the influence of a wandering intellectual (Omar Sharif). As for the atrocities of the period, they are conveyed in formal compositions that amount to decorations, not disasters. Plague-ridden corpses are artistically strewn on smooth fields; soldiers flash evil grins in cartoon style-one even ecstatically licks the blood off his knife...
...most libertarians have stayed with the right and still strongly believe in laissez-faire capitalism. Abridgement of the laissez-faire ethic, they believe, has brought this country a host of large and dangerous problems: pollution-which interferes with the rights of the non-polluters; imperialism abroad-as in Vietnam, the Dominican Republic, and Guatemala; and imperialism at home-in the form of police oppression, drug and sex laws, and political rule over the ghetto...
...what's in a name? As long as the voters believed in welfare and most of the needy stayed off the rolls, criticism of the system was minimal despite reports that it wasn't working. The concept of welfare, though, has always run against America's well-ingrained work ethic...
...contribute to the hypocrisy of welfare by implying that Americans believe in the Protestant ethic. No one refuses or is ashamed to accept welfare if it is disguised by euphemisms such as "benefit," "grant," "loan," "subsidy," "tariff," "tax deduction," etc., etc. Every American and most industries are on one form of welfare or another...
...demands on the nation. The public is willing to admit that national priorities must be set and that some desirable goals will require time to attain. The downturn has re-emphasized the virtues of hard work and self-reliance and has brought about a modest revival of the puritan ethic. None of this means that recessions are desirable. The goal of rising prosperity is not only a fundamental part of the American credo; it is absolutely essential to the solution of nearly all America's problems. But the recession has at least restored a certain sense of realism...