What Is A Moral Outrage

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I really enjoy when something you connects to something that you feel to be personal. That is how I felt this week as I read this week’s chapter followed by a very long visit to the museum. I connected to the reading when this chapter discussed the ways in which relative advantage can be experienced, particularly the moral outrage portion. As a person who is deeply involved with several current social justice movements, the moral outrage that I have experienced over the year when faced with an illegitimate advantage has always felt more like a call to action. When walking though the museum with this in mind, I could not help but put myself in the shoes of students like Nancy Nix who participated in picketing Patterson’s Drug Store when they

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