Because, these days, being Against Israel and Caring About Palestine have become moral markers in some Western circles.
In "Go Set a Watchman," however, this is not a marker of his moral dependability, but rather of his moral corruption.
While it early yet to say if the wide-ranging support will translate into the transformation Obama seeks, the president has laid down his marker – issuing a moral call to action in his remarks before the NAACP.
The frustrated ambitions of his young heroes (Rastignac in Le Père Goriot [1835; Old Goriot]; Lucien de Rubempré, failed writer turned journalist, in Illusions perdues [1837 43; Lost Illusions]) and the subjection of women, particularly in marriage, are used as eloquent markers of the moral impasse into which bourgeois liberalism led the French Revolution.
Is there anything special about being a member of the biological species homo sapiens that enhancements could threaten, or are those who criticize enhancement as "dehumanizing" really thinking about the loss of other markers of the moral status we confer on persons?
Under that ideological framework, unemployment ceases to be a position of unfortunate circumstance or economic consequence, and instead becomes a marker of personal, even moral failure.
The conflicting and opposing interests described in MS4 (on social inequality) may also be interpreted as colliding opinions on moral, as well as expressing ethnic markers.
For the government, housing is not just a choice of tenancy for individual households, but a marker of far deeper significance, even of moral character.
Death not only coincides with a significant change in biological function, but is also a marker of change in an individual's moral, social, spiritual, political, legal and economic status within society.
The other moral, less encouraging, is that popular culture is a much less significant marker of public attitudes than its close readers wish to imagine.
