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.
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.
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.
"Civilization" was not just a marker of material improvement, but also a normative judgment about the moral progress of society.
Far from acknowledging or adopting the labels of moral weakness or class deterioration, these adults constructed their family size as a marker of a proud sectarian identity.
It was a marker, of sorts.
They are an outward marker of caste.
