But citizenship is not just an abstract idea about rights and duties; for most of us it is something we do not choose but are born into - it arises out of a shared history, shared experiences and, often, shared suffering; as the American writer Alan Wolfe puts it: "Behind every citizen lies a graveyard". Both aspects of citizenship imply a notion of mutual obligation.
But citizenship is not just an abstract idea about rights and duties; for most of us it is something we do not choose but are born into - it arises out of a shared history, shared experiences and, often, shared suffering; as the American writer Alan Wolfe puts it: "Behind every citizen lies a graveyard".
There's something that I'm going to observe of you that I have no idea about right now.
In a moral universe in which the means justified the ends, many of them were prepared to become the Chairman's willing executioners, casting aside every idea about right and wrong to achieve the ends he envisaged.
Does mystical experience always confirm traditional religious ideas about right and wrong, or is mysticism independent of moral issues?
FROM an early age, the Rev. Renee Francis Washington had very clear ideas about right (wearing white gloves) and wrong (messy hair, poor posture).
Mr Portillo has got his present mix of ideas about right, but his ideas have changed so much and so recently that it is reasonable to doubt his attachment to them.
She loathes instructions for correct viewing, but she has her own ideas about right and wrong ways to go for a walk: ignore the viewpoints marked on the OS map, ignore the interpretation boards, find your own way in.
She loathes instructions for correct viewing, but she has her own ideas about right and wrong ways to go for a walk: ignore the viewpoints marked on the OS map, ignore the interpretation boards, find your own way in.
Of course, ideas about right and wrong take on a special meaning in this context, among reality-TV recidivists who say things like "The last time I was on a date like this, I was proposing," and "You might remember me from Season 4 of 'Bachelor in Paradise,' where I was kind of a jerk," and "Like, 'Winter Games' didn't exist when I said that I retired".
You probably assume that my father was strict (he was), that he had very firm ideas about right and wrong (he did), and that the lessons he taught me about the differences between good people and bad people are as concrete as the walls we use to keep them apart.
