After a time of conformity and censorship in the late 1950s, comic books sprang back to life and popularity in the 1960s with the introduction of more believable, morally ambivalent and vulnerable superheroes, like Spider-Man, who made his debut in the pages of Marvel Comics in 1962.
Both Bachmann and Beck appear to be tapping into a deep but often unspoken fear in many Americans –- many of them, but not all, in the conservative grassroots –- that the country is crumbling from within, financially and morally, and increasingly vulnerable to outside aggressors or to internal disorder.
Associate Justice John Paul Stevens's majority opinion also considered international norms as well as the characteristics of retarded people that make them less morally culpable and more vulnerable to wrongful conviction than others.
From the professor's plea to society to do the morally right thing by the vulnerable – if you're poor, where you live matters; the south-west is better than the north-east, his slides suggest – to the Ritz in an hour or two was quite a leap.
It is always morally problematic when society's most vulnerable members, children, have their images taken from them without being able to refuse or consent.
We certainly did not get into this much fiscal trouble by spending too much on the poor, and trying to reduce the deficit now at the expense of our most vulnerable people is simply morally unacceptable.
Mr. Whitaker is somber, world weary and morally complicated, and Ms. Foster is steely and vulnerable.
Last week, while trying to impose morally indefensible welfare cuts on the most vulnerable in society, it was revealed that the Chancellor had made a morally indefensible sweetheart tax deal with American multinational Google, one of the most powerful companies in the world.
So the best way to damage Trump may not be politically, but morally — attacking him where he is most vulnerable: his lack of values.
