"The legitimacy of prophetic moral discourse, I believe, is without question. It is not, however, sufficient as moral discourse. It undercuts preoccupation with meager thinking about means to short-range ends. ... It does not concern itself with incremental choices that have to be made by persons and institutions in which good and evil are intricately intermingled."
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