On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: > in case you missed it, my definitions got beyond such semantic > niceties. "Moral" simply means having ethics, standards, values, > ideals, etc. That can be pejorative if the morality is bad (from > someone's perspective) but obviously isn't always. "Moralistic" means > the imposition of one's ideals/morals without paying attention to the > real conditions of their life, trying to fit the square peg of > someone's life into the idealized moral round hole. That's pejorative.
Thats what I said. "Moralistic" is pejorative, "moral" need not be. So anyone who criticizes anything can be accused of being moralistic. Nothing productive ever comes out of such accusations. -raghu. -- "Really ?? What a coincidence, I'm shallow too!!" _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
