ABSTRACT
The question of whether social activism qualifies as moral behavior is difficult to answer, although it seems clear that certain forms of activism are moral. Haan (in press) poses the issue with regard to the 1960s student activism succinctly, as follows:
(although) the claim of moral purpose seemed too easily made (by the protestors) and in the post-Freudian, older generation's view, might very well mask other phenomena, such as the melancholy outcome of several decades of permissive childrearing, youth's concern with justice for disadvantaged groups, with civil liberties, and with the war against the Vietnamese undeniably involved moral issues.
