Moorehead's account stresses the women's persistence and moral courage, but she also captures the chilling ambivalence that many felt in the "flat, empty" years that followed the war: "Having so badly wanted to live, they found they no longer cared whether they did so or not".
Functionalism appears to seek explanations of the emergence and persistence of moral norms and practices.
First, the evolutionary approach provides a genuine explanation of the emergence and persistence of moral norms.
As we saw above, one of the criticisms of functionalism is that it does not explain the connection between individual choice and the emergence and persistence of moral norms.
A few weeks ago, I saw Selma, a remarkable movie about the unbreakable persistence and moral leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the struggle to secure voting rights for African-Americans in the Jim Crow South.
Though Moorehead stresses the persistence and incredible moral courage of the women, she also captures the chilling ambivalence that many felt in the "flat, empty" years that followed: "Having so badly wanted to live, they found they no longer cared whether they did so or not".
The persistence of a moral economy that encourages reciprocal sharing of material and data outside formal institutional collaborations could in theory pose a challenge to the security required by industrial collaborators.
For a convincing argument that neither the age-old nature of this motif, nor its modern persistence necessarily imply its moral justification and social desirability, see [53].
The persistence of slavery posed a moral predicament for someone who wished to avoid any intimation of cultural advantage, and it was clearly causing Stark a struggle.
It meant that the debate got stuck in the symptomatic arguments about morality rather than the more substantial issues of how secularisation deals with the persistence of a God who makes moral demands on public life.
