There's an ugly truth about the inevitability of moral compromise, embodied by the shifty Renault.

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What is so bewitching about moral compromise, after all, is that we enter it, as Henry Burton does, half willingly.

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Piaf is most identified with the Trauma of the 1940s, the swift defeat in May 1940, the compromise of surrender, the moral accommodation of Nazi-ism, the collaboration, the humiliation of four years of German occupation, the terrible betrayal of Vichy.

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Those conditions, meant as a compromise approach, are set to allay many of the ethical and moral concerns people have with using human embryos for research.

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