Are we prepared to make hard moral choices or shall we be satisfied with easy moralizing slogans?
Her students are not only learning world history and politics, but how to make hard moral choices in a world of both apartheid and terrorists fighting its injustice, a world of Holocausts and of bystanders who never protested its horrors.
By muddying the waters between journalism and activism, and by throwing his organization into the debate on Afghanistan with little apparent regard for the hard moral choices and dearth of good policy options facing decision-makers, he is being as reckless and destructive as the contemptible soldier or soldiers who leaked the documents in the first place.
Under these circumstances, people who are eager to continue their activities inside Russia - be it cultural or philanthropic projects - face hard moral choices to either collaborate with the regime or refuse to do so and sacrifice many opportunities along the way.
No, Senator Feinstein and others choose to occupy another universe -- one in which counterterrorism requires no hard moral choices; a universe in which harsh, coercive interrogations are not only messy and wrong, but also never work.
She had some tough moral choices to make.
"The deepest moral questions are the ones that force you to make difficult moral choices".
Through the refractive medium of an exceptionally misleading narration, however, we glimpse a much bleaker world in which moral choice is hard, in which there are no consolations, and in which Romantic paraphernalia whether speculative science, artistic medievalism, or landscape gardening is a delusive distraction.
For potential political appointees, the dilemma is harder, because the decision is even more of a moral choice.
Beyond the complexity of the moral choice to be made, the trolley problem is hard for two technical reasons.
The lesson he reads into it is simple: "We have," he tells me, "no choice but to rely on ourselves... and there's a hard moral lesson from the Holocaust that anyone could become a murderer.
