Nowadays, such constriction of the frame is used as a mark of antiquity (in "The Artist," or in the older scenes of "The Grand Budapest Hotel"), whereas in "Ida" it functions as a moral tool.
If we are to extend Mr. Silver's view that the law is a powerful moral tool, why not make it law that high school students read a certain number of books a year, or criminalize certain curse words?
Keynes came from the heart of a Cambridge tradition (later continued in that other Cambridge in Massachusetts) that saw economics as a humane discipline or moral science, providing tools for earnest attempts to do good in the world.
Its armoury includes powerful moral and intellectual tools, designed to distinguish greater evils from lesser ones, at times when no solution is easy and the consequences of each option must be weighed.
They have created a Moral Machine website tool that gives us insight as to what, exactly, the public expects and wants from autonomous cars.
For some, fantasy is pure diversion, for others a life-draining addiction, for many an exercise in community, and for some even a moral compass and tool for self-discovery.
Much of Labour's strategy for its third term has been based on second-guessing our behaviour through "soft" policy tools for moral persuasion.
What libertarian paternalism does is to step into the breach, with "soft" policy tools for moral persuasion, such as public health initiatives - things designed to save us from ourselves, but without relieving us of the burden of making up our own minds.
Meyers, herself the insider's insider, puts the moral, emotional, and social tools for a serious young woman's continued success — the lessons in independence and, not incidentally, in feminism that Jules needs — in the mouth of the man in the gray flannel suit.
