Intuitively, what is objectionable about Mary's behaviour is not anything to do with well-being, or with the identity of future individuals.
What was objectionable about it?
In September, Bobby Finger of the website Jezebel obtained and published some excerpts from the new books, showing much of what is objectionable about their content.
What was objectionable about all this wasn't Heston – he's an acquired taste, but on the whole I can take him – but the fundamental conceit that what he was doing was in some way useful.
What is objectionable about this scene isn't its shock value — there's a similar, more unsettling dog-eats-man scene in Johnnie To's great mob movie "Election II" — it's how the violence is exploited within the context of the story.
You might not see what was objectionable about these dizzy farces, but Bloshteyn reminds us that not only were the authorities of the time capricious and at times oversensitive, but that the stories are, in their way, quietly subversive, showing no respect to any figure of authority at all, a trait that we can certainly identify in Chekhov's later work.
Contractualism and consequentialism thus gloss what is objectionable about the same conduct in different ways.
(Blake 2003: 232 3) Thus, Blake is able to explain what is objectionable about racist selection criteria by invoking the requirement that states treat all of their own constituents as free and equal, since these criteria clearly treat those insiders in the dispreferred group as inferior and subordinate.
Not enough to be objectionable, but there.
But how much more satisfying it would have been to have had a conversation about what was objectionable in the story, about how the paper could have responded with a letter to the editor or an opinion piece from the administration or with follow-up stories about the scholarship fund and its criteria.
