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The gunman who shot a fellow resident at a homeless shelter here in Madison is responsible for his own actions (see story linked below). But this doesn’t mean others don’t have some culpability as well. City and state officials also have some responsibility for the shooting as well. Why? By their response to this summer’s riots undermined the rule of …
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From former Madison mayor Dave Cieslewicz comes this: For too long we have told ourselves a narrative of our country that was too sanitized. We have not been willing enough to confront what’s still wrong with America. There is no question that slavery and Jim Crow are national stains that can’t be just wiped away. It’s good to be honest …
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At least here in Wisconsin, ALL clergy are now eligible for the Covid vaccine because we are “part of health care personnel who provide spiritual care to the sick” (see link below). In an immediate sense, this is important not only to clergy personally but also our families and congregations. It is also an acknowledgement by the state of Wisconsin …
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The manufacturers use of cells from aborted children has raised reservation about the vaccine itself. Following from this some have also quested the moral goodness of and so getting the vaccine even when doing so would likely mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and so protect the health and life of both the recipient and others.
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Glenn Harlan Reynolds, a professor of law at the University of Tennessee and founder of the InstaPundit.com blog, writes: For academics playing word games, this is fun. For gangs of ‘woke’ students — or Times employees, who have managed to ‘cancel’ a series of the paper’s top writers recently — it can produce a feeling of enormous power and self-importance. …
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Patriotism, that is love of country, is for Christians an obligation that flows from our love of neighbor. Such love, like all loves, must be chaste not promiscuous. Chaste love doesn’t overlook shortcoming in the beloved. But neither does it make even the most serious moral failures the sum total of the beloved. In the service of fostering a chaste …
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…they must also be morally good themselves. Virtue is no guarantee that a political leader undertake effective, prudent and just public policies. The variable are often so complex that even the virtuous and knowledgeable politician may find him or herself only guess as to the best course of action. The difficulties inherent in both doing good and being good, however, …
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Aristotle’s theory was a little more nuanced. He’s aware of art’s ability to influence, but he argues that it’s not depiction that is of chief importance, but portrayal. I’m oversimplifying a bit here, but basically the artist can depict good people or things or bad people or things, and can portray them as good or bad, or leading to good or bad …
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Jason Breen at 200-Proof Liberals (Racism and Sexual Assault: Why Don’t Universities Choose to Shut Down?) writes that If we learned that 31.6% of students at Smiling Faces Daycare Center were sexually assaulted while there, we wouldn’t insist they hire a few more feminist scholar daycare workers or do more sexual assault programming. We would insist that the institution be …
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You might have some imperfect obligation to speak out against some issue. (It can’t be a perfect obligation, can it? Does anyone think you are literally obligated to speak out for or against some issue at all times you’re awake?) Even if so, it doesn’t follow that other people have permission to make you speak out on demand. For instance, even if …
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