Word: morality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public has a sense that it cannot trust what is being said, "Bok, the author of "Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life," told the crowd...
...physicians don't collaborate with the government and persuade them to abandon nuclear weapons, "our technological capacity might exceed our moral capabilities," Robert J. Lifton, Yale professor of psychiatry, said Saturday
...story of his inability to see the truth of what his ties with the Pinochet dictatorship mean for the people of Chile is one of naivete, myopia and poignance. It is also the story of a man's deeply flawed moral judgement. In essence, Harberger puts the welfare if the people he knows and loves before the welfare of an entire people; he fails to imagine the suffering of people he does not know...
...with support personnel in Pakistan. He went out of his way to bring up Viet Nam. Said he: "When 50,000 Americans make the ultimate sacrifice to defend the people of a small, defenseless country in Southeast Asia from Communist tyranny, that, my friends, is a collective act of moral courage, not an example of moral poverty." He urged that the Navy be built up, charging, "The U.S. is in a more precarious position today than it was the day after Pearl Harbor...
Security has been so easy for the last generation. A peace marcher now working in Carter's White House says, "I hate to even talk about it. The old 1960s measuring rods are useless. Concerns are so different. I have no moral yardstick. We must consider what we can do that will work, that will prevent...