Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...have seen, and I have no answers. They are all give and take. Every answer seems to sacrifice something I don't want to lose. I might sacrifice morality, Hitler, for example, in defense of democracy. The will of the majority is not always right, and is many times wrong. I know it. In my bones, I know it, Hitler. Yet to democratically legalize morality--even with regard to the most evil things in our society--I am told, could wind up making the good legally immoral...
...justice and injustice, freedom and slavery--these all become jumbled and twisted and switched about like pawns in the pursuit of greatness. People want to be great. And if you can make them great, then your morality will be their morality, without question, and all questions of right and wrong will be settled for all time...
While the students had the right to test their constitutional safeguard of free expression, they were wrong to use it. The kind of reasoning that accepts pornography for want of money, because people want to see it, because we have the legal right to--only contributes to the increasing violence against women in America today. This reasoning abdicates personal responsibility--the moral imperative that is the most reasonable restraint on the first amendment...
...filming of the movie that made her a "star"--treatment that can only be described as criminal and obscene. The demonstration the night of the screening was inspiring: as many people watched the slide show as the movie. We support that protest for its condemnation of an insensitive and wrong decision to support pornography, and we urge House film societies to consider the feelings of others in their selection of movies...
...generation of fuel-efficient models. Moreover, Eraser's new post could prove a trail blazer for management-labor relations in other American industries, ensuring that the worker's viewpoint gets an adequate hearing at executive levels. Says he: "Maybe the adversary relationship is precisely what is wrong with the American labor movement." In any case, Eraser's trial run in Chrysler's red brick headquarters in Highland Park, Mich., will certainly have an impact far beyond that troubled company...