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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (14008)	11/9/1998 11:19:00 AM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

bp, the Borks and the Bennetts attribute the alleged "degradation of personal ethics" (actually, they prefer the term "morality") to Liberalism. jbe

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (14008)	11/9/1998 11:57:00 AM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

<<I thought the Borks and the Bennetts were raising such a hullaballo about the degradation of personal ethics, you're not suggesting liberals have a lock on lack of moral character, now are you?>> jbe as I understand it, moral character is the willingness to seek to expand in oneself the quality of being in accord with standards of right or good conduct. The flavor of anti-Borkian comments I hear have to do with oppressive intolerance of individual consideration. So, concern for "moral character" gets associated with persecution of differences. That's bum rap. If the thinking is some of the personalities are tyrannical, why does a perfectly dignified phrase like "moral character" have to suffer so? I personally avoid using the phrase "moral character" because of the double meaning that I risk. So, now I worry that when I use phrases like personal ethics, or deep-rooted integrity, my comments become associated with some politically convenient double meaning. I pitty the anthropologists of the future who try to come to terms our generation. I worry for my progeny. If they ever consider for themselves a set of principles on which to establish a course of purposeful life, while living in the current climate of cultural outrage over any foundation of ethics, their lives are sure to be wrought with societal opposition.