Some told me they're expected to support Clinton in the beginning, and still might, but that Obama since he's black gives them some feeling of moral imperative to may be consider voting for him.

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Holly Hunter, Gary Busey, Ed Harris, David Strathairn, and Wilford Brimley do themselves proud, and Gene Hackman is in a class by himself, brewing unprecedented mixtures of moral dry rot, fellow feeling, and animal vitality.

NEWYORKER: The Firm

Certainly since the early nineteen-nineties, there has been a loss of aesthetic and moral discrimination in Italian life, an anything-goes feeling that culminates in the spectacle of a serving Prime Minister accused of contracting a minor for sex.

NEWYORKER: Booted

She speculates that the reason for this is that feeling morally unclean (ie, disgusted) leads to feelings of moral wrongness and thus triggers increased ethical behaviour by instilling a desire to right the wrong.

ECONOMIST: Soaping away your outer dirt may lead to inner evil

Crack cocaine is a highly addictive substance that produces an immediate feeling of euphoria, is relatively inexpensive yet terribly destructive, and often forces the user to suppress his moral compass to justify getting ever more.

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