If We Are Surrounded By The Trivial

A Weakened Sense Of Responsibility Does Not Weaken The Fact Of Responsibility.

Nothing In Recent Years, On Television Or Anywhere Else, Has Improved On A Good Story That Begins "once Upon A Time..."

The Formation Of Character In Young People Is Educationally A Different Task From, And A Prior Task To, The Discussion Of The Great, Difficult, Ethical Controversies Of The Day. First Things First. And Planting The Ideas Of Virtue, Of Good Traits In The Young, Comes First. In The Moral Life, As In Life Itself, We Take One Step At A Time. Every Field Has Its Complexities And Controversies. And So Does Ethics. And Every Field Has Its Basics. So Too With Values.

I Think We Need To Find Out Why The Citizens Of The World's Wealthiest, Most Envied, Most Powerful Country Are So Cynical, So Distressed, So Angry, So Ticked Of About So Many Things.

Government, Obviously, Cannot Fill A Child's Emotional Needs. Nor Can It Fill His Spiritual And Moral Needs. Government Is Not A Father Or Mother. Government Has Never Raised A Child, And It Never Will.