For their efforts these and other similarly unimpressed writers were treated like advocates for national health care at a Tea Party rally, their motives, their professionalism, their morals and their sanity questioned, and not always politely.
It threatens continually to destroy his moral sense, even his sanity, as he learns that "the law of dreams" — the law of surviving — "is, keep moving".
Though traumatized by the ordeal, Gordon retains his sanity and moral code, and he insists that Batman capture the Joker "by the book" in order to show him that adhering to the legal process works.
Most of the time when people do bad things nobody doubts their sanity, just their morals.
That was a young king who was encased in ritual and who had to learn about human suffering: his Lear is an old king who has to undergo a similar moral journey in which he acquires sanity via madness.
But history matters, too, and historians, MacCulloch says, have a moral task: "They should seek to promote sanity and to curb the rhetoric which breeds fanaticism".
Pozen offers sanity in an industry that has lost its moral compass and he provides direction going forward.
And meanwhile, Phil Green, the banking system, the Houses of Parliament and every hedge fund manager out there continue to harness their interior moral vacuums to hoover in the wealth, the light and the sanity of the world.
At another level, the book is about our everyday life issues, magnified: the life-and-death consequences of chance, the problem of evil, the impossibility of separating one's moral code from surrounding circumstances, and the difficulties of maintaining one's sanity and humanness in the presence of injustice and bad people.
