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For four decades Gaddafi's tyrannical regime destroyed the infrastructure as well as the culture and the moral fabric of Libyan society.
We have the ability now, and maybe the moral obligation, to repair some of the damage.
I mean, I'm an economist, but this is ultimately not an economic question, it's a moral question: Are we willing, as Americans, are we as a society still capable of making the political choice to sacrifice now by paying more taxes in order to improve the long-term future of not only our kids, but our community?
However, the moral and political choice is still up to us, as citizens and as voters.
We need more men with the guts, with the courage, with the strength, with the moral integrity to break our complicit silence and challenge each other and stand with women and not against them.
"I started my vegetarianism for health reasons, Then it became a moral choice, and now it's just to annoy people."
What I think is important is that, if it's clear that we exterminated these species, then I think we not only have a moral obligation to see what we can do about it, but I think we've got a moral imperative to try to do something, if we can.
Corruption is widespread and undermines the system and its moral legitimacy.
Also, aside from any moral qualms you might have about enslaving superior minds, you might worry that maybe the superintelligence could outsmart us, break out and take over.
Do you want the pious society with strict moral rules, or do you an hedonistic free-for-all, more like Burning Man 24/7?
I'm primarily a moral philosopher.
I merely have a holiday in psychology, and what interests me in general is moral debate.
Now over the last century, in developed nations like America, moral debate has escalated because we take the hypothetical seriously, and we also take universals seriously and look for logical connections.
They would not take the hypothetical seriously, and without the hypothetical, it's very difficult to get moral argument off the ground.
And you can get moral argument off the ground, then, because you're not treating moral principles as concrete entities.
One of the ways in which we would like to deal with the sophistication of the modern world is through politics, and sadly you can have humane moral principles, you can classify, you can use logic on abstractions, and if you're ignorant of history and of other countries, you can't do politics.
So the moral of all this is, we need to think much less about trust, let alone about attitudes of trust detected or mis-detected by opinion polls, much more about being trustworthy, and how you give people adequate, useful and simple evidence that you're trustworthy.
In fact, during the past three decades, when market reasoning and market thinking have gathered force and gained prestige, our public discourse during this time has become hollowed out, empty of larger moral meaning.
Do we want a society where everything is up for sale, or are there certain moral and civic goods that markets do not honor and money cannot buy?
Paradoxically, it was the group who had posted similar information, an example of moral dissonance.
They, as social enterprises do, have created a moral and ethical code that they advertise around, and they have very strict recruiting practices.
There is this false moral imperative that seems to be all around us, that treatment of depression, the medications and so on, are an artifice, and that it's not natural.
In surveys, we've found that it's actually wealthier individuals who are more likely to moralize greed being good, and that the pursuit of self-interest is favorable and moral.
We have a moral obligation to invent technology so that every person on the globe has the potential to realize their true difference.
This is what economists call a moral hazard.
My reservations are principally about the moral hazard problem, and I don't really know how we can best avoid the moral hazard.
But it might well be that, in fact, if China wakes up in 2030 and realizes that the climate impacts are just unacceptable, they may not be very interested in our moral conversations about how to do this, and they may just decide they'd really rather have a geo-engineered world than a non-geo-engineered world.
It has to be possible to balance freedom of expression with wider moral and social responsibilities.
Normally, acquiring moral behavior is simply part of growing up, like learning to speak.
The fact that this developmental progression is universal, irrespective of where you live in the world or which culture you inhabit, strongly suggests that the foundations of moral behavior are inborn.
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