Word: moralizes
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...that the books promote witchcraft and Satanism; a student in Houston had to get up and leave the room every time the teacher read aloud from Harry Potter. But even that ruckus has calmed down or come to stand for a much larger conversation about what should shape the moral life of children. "I think any unusual focus on things like magic and witchcraft is a bad idea," says Charles J. Chaput, Archbishop of Denver, "but these things can also be a natural part of storytelling with children. So I think the Potter argument is really about bigger and deeper...
...many people around the world, the U.S. is an international bully, swaggering, breaking things, indifferent to the human or political cost. Some movie people, for whom every perceived moral disaster is just a melodrama waiting to be scripted, think they have a fantasy answer to the threat of America: blow...
...Even if the country's physicians subscribed to the Hippocratic oath, the ancient moral dictum that guides Western medical workers, they would have to violate it. In China, doctors serve the all-powerful state, and when a professional code of conduct conflicts with the Party line, the latter often holds sway. "Of course it's an ethical problem," says a doctor who participated in Beijing's SARS cover-up. "We want to be honest, but if we don't go along, we can't exist...
...that? It helps that writer's block has never been a problem. McCall Smith estimates his writing speed at an astonishing 1,000 words an hour. "I'm very lucky," he says. "I don't have to make a great effort." Nor do readers. The books "make a moral point about the importance of courtesy, of trying to keep traditional ways," he says. That - as well as the need to touch on topics such as aids - risks weighing the tales down. But his gentle prose eases the ride through Mma Ramotswe's world of moral crimes and social misdemeanors...
Refuting or refining Gilligan’s theory has become a cottage industry within the field of developmental psychology. Often, she’s now grouped with Kohlberg, as someone whose theory on moral judgment is interesting and important and yet not authoritative...