Moral conflict and ordinary emotional ex
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Michael K. Morris
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Article
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1992
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Springer
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English
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No matter how thoughtful or wise they are, people sometimes find themselves in situations where everything they can do has a high moral cost. Novelists and playwrights thrive on such situations. For example, in William Styron's novel Sophie's Choice (1976) a Nazi doctor tells Sophie to choose one of