worth-notings

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  • Oct
  • 17
  • 2011

Outrage in China after toddler run over and ignored

“Blood was coming out her nose and mouth… I didn’t understand why no one else had carried her from the street.” 

I don’t understand it either.

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  • Tags:
  • China
  • Children
  • Tragedy
  • Morality
  • Jan
  • 17
  • 2011

A Tale of Two Moralities

I think this statement in the article summed it up best:

“For the great divide in our politics isn’t really about pragmatic issues, about which policies work best; it’s about differences in those very moral imaginations Mr. Obama urges us to expand, about divergent beliefs over what constitutes justice.”

The need for one standard of morality means that human beings will always fall short of being good and moral. We are biased enough to not be able to fairly carry out justice and too damaged to wholly understand what being moral means.

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  • Tags:
  • Morality
  • Justice
  • Politics

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Florence (n): a young adult's observations, experiences, and lessons in life that she thinks are worth writing about.

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