Word: situationist
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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...situationist agrees with Bonhoeffer, the anti-Nazi Lutheran pastor who decided that it was his Christian duty to join the plot on Hitler's life, that "principles are only tools in the hand of God, soon to be thrown away as unserviceable." In the vast majority of instances, Fletcher believes, the principle will probably apply. Yet by refusing to acknowledge absolutes, the situationist can defend, for example, the World War II concentration-camp doctor who saved the lives of 3,000 Rumanian Jewish women by secretly performing abortions on them. Had she not done so, they would have been...
...lenient and more stringent than law morality. It can command hard decisions as well as easy ones-acceptance of martyrdom, for example, when law morality would permit surrender or compromise. It can also say that certain acts are immoral which law ethics would consider tech nically valid. To the situationist, says Fletcher, "even a transient sex liaison, if it has the elements of caring, of tenderness and selfless concern, is better than a mechanical, egocentric exercise of conjugal 'rights' between two uncaring or antagonistic marriage partners...
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