America has swerved from its ethical center.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that.
The major wars that the U.S. became involved in are all ethically defensible.
Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.
Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.
There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.
Whatever we want to think about American business - work hard, tell the truth, have morality - it's a myth. There's a lot of graft.
We Americans have a sense of ourselves as a moral people. We have led the way in the fight for human rights in the world. Mistreating prisoners makes the world see our moral claims as hypocrisy.
Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.
Our nation has invested millions of dollars in building safe, humane and, I may say, air-conditioned facilities to detain and prosecute the detainees at Guantanamo.
We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the arctic refuge for future generations, and that is why our country has remained committed to its protection for nearly 50 years.