Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Moral Matters...
...Flannery O'Connor's work also brings out an idea Coles has focused on in his recent scholarship--the notion of moral intelligence...
...would give me pleasure if the murderers got the deaths that they deserve. But I still say, on reflection, that, for the sake of our longer term health and moral ecology, there are some pleasures we should forgo. Killing the killers is one of them...
...state of Arkansas executed a woebegone, deeply depressed mother who had killed her children, I wrote that I had changed my view of the death penalty. While I had once favored it in certain cases, I had decided that capital punishment had lost its meaning amid the general moral squalor and should be abolished altogether...
...contrast, irrational to forbid capital punishment. One can support such a course only, ultimately, on unprovable and somewhat vaporous grounds - in the name, perhaps, of a principle of moral evolution, a kind of hope...