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What we've lost (9): Moral judgement

The reluctance to judge arises from the attraction of evading responsibility for our choices

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The past 10 or 15 years have not been kind to Canada. Along with a decline in prosperity has come an erosion of the things that made our society great, a decline of what held us together and made us the envy of the world: things like resilience, friendship and service. In this series, National Post writers consider What We’ve Lost.

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It’s very judgmental, isn’t it? This National Post series on What we’ve lost?

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Add to our list of manners, marriage and masculinity, that we have lost our confidence in making moral judgments.

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