As Susan Sontag has shown in "Illness as Metaphor," her study of the mythology of disease, all the major illnesses have prompted a moralistic and punitive response, and have given rise to entire theoretical systems based on phony psychologizing.
The riots were not merely irregular, spasmodic responses to shortage and hunger; rather, they represented a righteous indignation, a moralistic and thus political response to the shift away from a paternalistic rationality of custom, intended to protect the people, to a purportedly amoral and abstract force of the market.
Here we investigate moralistic punishment, a behavior designed to inflict costs on another individual in response to a perceived moral violation.
The agricultural education movement in Massachusetts, in reaction to this crisis, had highly moralistic tones.
Models that turn on individuals' cultivating reputations as moralistic punishers clearly predict that psychological systems should be designed to increase punishment in response to information that one's decisions to punish will be known by others.
Elizabeth was the responsible, hardworking – some might say geeky – and more moralistic twin.
Yesterday, Slate ran an irate response from Bernstein, who writes that Hari's review "was so willfully uncomprehending, so brim-full of moralistic error and ad hominem falsehood, that it's too hard not to reply".
Other people get moralistic.
10-13) Unidentified moralistic passages.
As easy, moralistic preaching.
"Moralistic," said the DC.
