"Whatever morality I should have been feeling was trumped by the thrill," he told me.
If you're going to throw the "m" word around -- morality -- you should have to make the case for how the action in question is harming society.
I am by no means an expert in the topic, but I do believe that with a strong sense of ethics, morality and empathy, one should have most of the traits necessary to understand and want gender equality.
Ellison's essay goes on to compare Twain to Ernest Hemingway, who had argued that Twain should have left the morality tale out of Huckleberry Finn and stuck to his stylistic writing.
'Somebody should have said to John: "Before you start a morality campaign, just run a slide rule past your hundred or so Ministers".
And done time for all your notions of morality.' And, to those who say I should've done more time, you try doing ten years.
But if that intuition is false, then the question is raised whether morality should be understood to have a structure that is impersonal at least in part.
Moreover, it is unclear what action-guiding potential such an oddly cohered morality would have: should an agent facing such a choice avoid doing wrong, or should he go for the praise?
Some supporters of Israel, who contend that Hezbollah wants to destroy that country and invaded to trigger the latest fighting, have asserted that morality should be considered by The Times in deciding what pictures to publish.
For example, you use the word "contend": "Some supporters of Israel, who contend that Hezbollah wants to destroy that country and invaded to trigger the latest fighting, have asserted that morality should be considered by The Times in deciding what pictures to publish".
