According to this standard, actions are not right because of the results they yield, or because they follow a strictly formulated rule, but are right because they are done as a virtuous person would do in that situation. ... For example, when we are young, our elders teach us the expectations for how to treat other people, with strict do's and don'ts, just as one would learn when they begin learning to play an instrument. As we grow up, we begin to grasp a firm understanding of the rules and start developing our moral wisdom, just as a pianist understands how to read music and the pr...

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Nevertheless Colonial Massachusetts proves to have been a place for persecution, guilty or not, and a place to affirm power and the interpretation of God's law. ... They had a strict moral code and violators were handed bizarre punishments. ... Magistrate also created strict laws against Quakers and persecuted them cruelly. ... The basic theories of colonial jurists in Massachusetts seemed to be that infliction of physical pain on the violator of public law served to: Propitiate a watchful Go who needed constant reassurance that the solemn Covenant under which they labored would be s...

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Waiting for the Ball to Drop The twenty-first century began for many Americans as they watched the ball drop in Times Square on television. While this is not unique, the background of advertisements behind the falling ball certainly were, including the graphic way in which they were displayed. ...

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