Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That is what is at stake in this finding of fact. The particular repercussions of his His Majesty's anti-corporate-screed-masquerading-as-law notwithstanding, what is most profoundly disturbing is his implicit rejection of law as a framework within which free moral agents can make informed choices. Given his ruling, how can any company of the future know in advance when improving product A is "monopolistic?" Or when serving the consumer is "predatory?" It cannot. And the moral bankruptcy of such schemes is, therefore, akin to all ex post facto legislation. It is no different from any other...
...Sandia in a weapons engineering group, which does not do scientific research. He has never seen fit to explain to geologists at Sandia why he thinks their work to characterize the stability of nuclear waste sites is incorrect by many orders of magnitude. Doesn't he have a moral obligation to speak out? If these rocks have only been around for 6,000 years, then scientists' conclusions about their stability--and therefore their safety--are all wrong! It appears he would rather make trouble for schoolteachers than for his coworkers and he'd rather get his name in newspapers than...
...Universities have a moral and social obligation to use the leverage they have to begin to make a change," he says. "And that's what they've already started doing...
...sort of national conscience, discount division. Wal-Mart has been accused of being both censor and nanny, condemned as a promoter of demon rum and slave labor, and cited as both a friend and a foe of the environment. "We don't want to be America's moral conscience," says Don Soderquist, senior vice chairman. "The watchword for all of our people is 'Do what is right.' That's what we really preach and teach and we want, but there's so much gray...
...Mart's rationale was simpler--perhaps too much so: its pharmacies don't stock every drug available; Preven was going to be a small seller, customers were not clamoring for it, and the item was pricey ($25). "You can't carry everything. Sometimes you get credit for making a moral judgment when you're not," says Glass. Similarly, when Glass pulled handguns from the shelves in 1994, the company cited sales more than ethics, although he notes that by then there were more negatives in stocking handguns than positives...