Quentin Tarantino may take the low road (trashy vitality, pastiche of already disreputable genres) and Steven Spielberg the high road – moral seriousness, historical scruple – but they have both arrived in the same territory this year, the subject of slavery in American history.
An Indian worker employed by a contractor to Roshan was kidnapped and executed in Kandahar last April, but the circumstances of the crime do not indicate any general hostility towards the firm, insists Mr Khoja.Roshan has prospered despite its stated refusal to bribe, a scruple that Mr Khoja hints is not shared by all his competitors.
The ex-minister says that the "whitewash" enables the security forces to believe they can continue to kill without scruple.
Should there be some pool of expertise, or institution, to which judges, civil servants or employers can turn when they are faced with a religious complaint?In fact there are real dangers in having too formal an institution to determine whether or not a religious scruple is well-founded.
Some doping methods simply cannot be satisfactorily detected by testing an athlete's urine (and for reasons, it says, of practicality and religious scruple the IOC has so far been reluctant to require blood-testing).
But more often new governments have stuck to them, though not always out of scruple.
On the contrary, he despised such people for their lack of scruple.
Either way, the bleak message is that his war will continue, unrestrained by any apparent moral scruple.
He senses something in the past that licenses violence against whites without scruple.
A safer, if less principled, path to re-election would be for him to topple the colonel quickly, with less scruple for the sensitivity of allies and the letter of the law.
It has now issued a warning to China's enthusiastic microbloggers that it might not scruple to do the same to their forums as well.
