In 1917, the New York Court of Appeals upheld a ban on the motion picture "Birth Control," which Sanger produced, on the grounds that it could be censored "in the interest of morality, decency and public safety and welfare".
After all, it's not enough to just clamp down on the worst excesses of techno-capitalism, to say that in the interests of fairness and decency we're no longer allowed to have the magic taxi that appears from nowhere, or the meals a computer dreams into your house, or the universal vacation slideshow that makes everyone feel miserable.
After all, it's not enough to just clamp down on the worst excesses of techno-capitalism, to say that in the interests of fairness and decency we're no longer allowed to have the magic taxi that appears from nowhere, or the meals a computer dreams into your house, or the universal holiday slideshow that makes everyone feel miserable.
In the interests of human rights human decency and human dignity, this must change.
The disturbing question is how far over the line (of ethics, of conflicts of interest, of the bounds of reality, of decency) does this President have to go for the GOP to swap their position and prioritize people over Party?
Those liquid, burden-of-decency basset-hound eyes.
"All decisions will be made in line with Poland's national interest and according to our own values and sense of decency," Poland's prime minister, Donald Tusk, told Polish radio, adding, "We will not take orders from Russia".
My government has consistently followed the path of least resistance and of short-term political expediency, at the cost of decency, justice and our clear, long-term interests.
That might sound laudable, some of the impulses behind it may well be noble, and in extreme emergencies, in the interest of sheer human decency, it may well be justified.
