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President Summers, if you installed cable in all dorm rooms at Harvard, your popularity would soar. Students' quality of life would improve. I learned in my Moral Reasoning class that philosopher Jeremy Bentham would credit installing cable with an increase in the total social utility of this university...
This page is opposed to the death penalty for moral reasons. Furthermore, the death penalty does not deter crime, nor is it administered fairly. Yet even those who favor the death penalty can recognize the seriousness of the McVeigh discovery. The human flaws in the administration of justice raise a significant danger that innocent people have been and will be executed for crimes they did not commit...
Which is all very fascinating, if you happen to get your moral philosophy from the glossy pages of America’s newsweeklies. If you don’t, though, you might wonder about Newsweek’s insistence that “We want to see Timothy McVeigh as evil incarnate, as Satan, as depravity in human form...Doing so allows us to place him in a category labeled EVIL with a capital E, but also, more importantly, one labeled...
...Children don't have the intellectual or moral capacity to understand the consequences of their actions; similarly, they lack the same capacity to be trial defendants...
...liberty, that governments and student groups can play Robin Hood without violating property rights, that conservatives are worried about nothing. I am open to the possibility that, someday, they just might persuade me. But they will never win me over so long as they keep trying to steal the moral high ground by scaring people with the myth of the heartless conservative. So let’s wipe the slate clean and start over with a commitment to be honest about each other’s motives...