Word: moralizes
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...when he told his mother, his first wife and a minister, Kerrey never brought up the botched mission at Thanh Phong. And then, on April 18 of this year, at a small speech to officer-training candidates at Virginia Military Institute, toward the end of his discourse about moral justifications of war, Kerrey spoke about the night in 1969 when he led six Navy SEALs on an operation to take out a suspected Viet Cong official. "We used lethal procedures when there was doubt," he said. "When we received fire, we returned fire. But when the firing stopped, we found...
...ought not to fight our wars. The main lesson is to take no American casualties, to fight only if victory is assured. But Kerrey's story reminds us that there is another lesson, one far harder to follow. Nations have no business sending their young into battle without lasting moral justification, not only because it is hard to die for your country but because it is equally hard to kill for your country...
...billion endowment with wages of $8 and $9 dollars an hour makes Harvard look heartless. And, with the issue unresolved, Harvard seems rigid and autocratic. However, an increase in wages will reverse this perception. Harvard will quickly move to a leadership role on an important economic and moral issue, and the University will show that it isn’t a large, impersonal, autocratic corporation. Instead, it will prove itself an institution that responds to democratic forces and is able to change with the times. Having responded to the protest, no one will be able to argue rationally that...
...never attempts to go beyond the fairy tale. Whereas Sondheim puts a complex show with complex characters and meaningful themes in the style of a children’s entertainment, this production, under the direction of Sara B. Heller ’02, captures none of the sophistication or moral ambiguity of the material. It is children’s entertainment. Clear choices about characters’ motivations and rationality don’t register. Instead, the audience is left with gimmicks and inappropriately one-note performances...
...more of a general(ly mediocre) survey of various philosophical concepts that can be projected onto the show. We get essays by random associate and assistant professors of philosophy entitled “Homer and Aristotle,” “Marge’s Moral Motivation,” “The Moral World of the Simpson Family” and discussions of how Nietzsche might justify Bart’s behavior, but the book somehow ends up being less informative and entertaining than one would expect from a project riding on the coattails of such...