Moral in sentence

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There seems to be a window of opportunity, after which mastering moral questions becomes more difficult, like adults learning a foreign language.

Many pundits have argued that a good heart and steadfast moral clarity are superior to triangulations of overeducated policy wonks, like the best and brightest and that dragged us into the quagmire of Vietnam.

SP: But can reason lead us in directions that are good or decent or moral?

But all on its own, it's a feeble instrument for making moral progress.

And if you look at the history of moral progress, you can trace a direct pathway from reasoned arguments to changes in the way that we actually feel.

SP: Still, I have become convinced that reason is a better angel that deserves the greatest credit for the moral progress our species has enjoyed and that holds out the greatest hope for continuing moral progress in the future.

Companies were created to limit financial risk, they were never intended to be used as a moral shield.

The internal side of our nature is a moral logic and often an inverse logic.

We provided food, clothing, shelter, and moral instruction to our kids, and they in return provided income.

I'm not really sure how to create new norms for this world, but I do think that in our desperate quest to create happy kids, we may be assuming the wrong moral burden.

It strikes me as a better goal, and, dare I say, a more virtuous one, to focus on making productive kids and moral kids, and to simply hope that happiness will come to them by virtue of the good that they do and their accomplishments and the love that they feel from us.

But I and others in the effective altruism community have converged on three moral issues that we believe are unusually important, score unusually well in this framework.

I want to try to convince you that prejudice and bias are natural, they're often rational, and they're often even moral, and I think that once we understand this, we're in a better position to make sense of them when they go wrong, when they have horrible consequences, and we're in a better position to know what to do when this happens.

Some of you may be so cosmopolitan that you think that ethnicity and nationality should hold no moral sway.

Now, this distinction is natural enough and often moral enough, but it can go awry, and this was part of the research of the great social psychologist Henri Tajfel.

I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that the major catalyst in America for moral change has been a situation comedy.

I know I have obligations to them, but my moral feelings to them, my moral beliefs about how I should behave towards them, aren't grounded in love.

And this principle of impartiality manifests itself in all of the world's religions, in all of the different versions of the golden rule, and in all of the world's moral philosophies, which differ in many ways but share the presupposition that we should judge morality from sort of an impartial point of view.

So I think when you think about it, this tends to transfigure your views, whereas what matters for ethical purposes and moral considerations, not so much the fact of consciousness, but the degree and the complexity of consciousness.

I'm not making a moral argument that economic inequality is wrong.

I disagree, and I think that it is equally a tool that humans use to enforce and encode our social and moral preferences and prejudices about status and power, which is why plutocrats like me have always needed to find persuasive stories to tell everyone else about why our relative positions are morally righteous and good for everyone: like, we are indispensable, the job creators, and you are not; like, tax cuts for us create growth, but investments in you will balloon our debt and bankrupt our great country; that we matter; that you don't.

Power has a negative moral valence.

Describe the values of your fellow citizens that you activated, and the sense of moral purpose that you were able to stir.

Well, it seems to me that this Hungarian presence in my life is difficult to account for, but ultimately I ascribe it to an admiration for people with a complex moral awareness, with a heritage of guilt and defeat matched by defiance and bravado.

The moral of the story is you must be prepared to act on your dreams, just in case they do come true.

In the big data age, the challenge will be safeguarding free will, moral choice, human volition, human agency.

It is our moral, it is our social and our environmental obligation.

As citizens of a planet in trouble, it is our moral responsibility to deal with the dramatic loss in diversity of life.

So what's the moral of this story?

Is the moral of this story, you know what, the fax is kind of eclipsed by the mobile phone?

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