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THAT'S MORAL, WITH AN 'M'

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19890207
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How far we've fallen. Business Ethics Resource, a newsletter published by a Brookline-based consultant, finds it necessary on the front page of its current issue to define a few basic terms for its readership -- real puzzlers such as moral, ethical and legal. Helpful illustrations abound: Samuel Butler addresses society's ethical expectations, noting that ". . . cannibalism is ethical in a cannibal country." Also quoted is Ernest Hemingway, who advised in his novel "Death in the Afternoon," "moral is what you feel good after." RROSEN;02/03 NKELLY;02/07,11:36 EXTRAS07

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