Sentences with phrase «as moral persons»

It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right not to be treated as the property or resources of humans.

It is too bad that so much of the energy of one of the greatest engines of conscientization the world has ever known — the Catholic Church — should be spent on regulating women's anatomy instead of promoting their autonomy and empowerment as moral persons.

The only connection I really see is that if we look at the rich as moral people, we must look at the poor as immoral.

(«As a moral person, I do not relish hearing these gruesome details» she says of the confessions she types).

Not exact matches

We can, and must, do something to expand opportunity for every young person — not simply as a moral imperative but out of economic necessity and competitiveness.

Food banks, Saul argues, serve as a kind of «moral release valve» for government, permitting it to appear as if it were doing something about hunger when it's doing nothing to address the poverty and social isolation that lead people to food banks in the first place.

«Those aged over 70 are viewed by people as more friendly, more competent and as having higher moral standards than those in their 20s,» the researchers noted.

So understanding how people perceive moral tipping points is important because it illuminates how we as a society create different thresholds for rewarding versus punishing others.

Most people would also regard it as an example of the residual problem of the lender - of - last - resort — «moral hazard».

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

You only need to read the headlines to see the ethical and moral breaches in all walks of life (and that goes for scientists who who fudge figures as well as business people who fudge balance sheets).

In short, I consider this «reality» show as must see TV which attempts to convince non-Muslim viewers of Muslim self - importance, moral superiority, and feigned persecution with every condescending word uttered by these hypocritical, duplicitous people.

They somehow see us as having no morals, instead of people that do not need religion to be moral.

Well - meaning conservatives, while trying to encourage young people to behave as they should, have lost the moral high ground in the AIDS debate, and regaining that ground will be exceedingly difficult.

If you want to keep people focused on your religion as a unifying set of moral and practical codes to live by, make attendence to religious services and taking the day off work to attend mandatory or else it is a sin punishable by death.

Robin Thicke has A) not been nearly as famous as Miley Cyrus has been, nor been famous for as long, and B) has never presented nor acted anything like a healthy, moral role model for young people.

Societyvs, As for gay people — the only thing you think they are destroying is the sanctity of marriage --------- Oh no, they are destroying themselves and the moral fabric of my nation, too.

They would be on much better intellectual and moral ground if they just allowed for the fact that yes, the religious Jews had Jesus killed so that they could protect their authority, but that as much to do with modern Jewish people as the Romans killing the Maccabees has to do with modern Italians — it's utterly irrelevant.

As the 1986 Vatican «Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons» stated, the homosexual inclination is «ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil» and is therefore an «objective disorder.»

At least people of faith like Rick Santorum point to the Natural Law as their basis to justify the relationship their faith has with moral public policy.

Most I know are humanists; people who care about the rest of humanity regardless of their faith and who adhere to a moral code just as noble as anyone, just without a deity as the center of their life.

«Drug testing,» as Elliott notes, «has always involved a kind of moral trade - off in which subjects are asked to take risks for the good of other people.»

Some people say that it is pointless, as it can not actually do anything, but in my opinion it does do something; it shows moral and emotional support for those supporting the fight against child abuse.

But within the context of people saying they are SBNR, I don't really see such people reacting against a loosely defined definition of religion as merely moral teachings administered with certain rituals and structures.

These persons one is tempted to see as representatives of Kohlberg's post-conventional or principled level of moral understanding and action.

His father, whom he regarded as a close friend and the most important person in his life, drove home the same moral teachings:

Self - important simpletons commonly hate anyone that isn't bound to the «moral» standards of verses such as Leviticus 20:13 which commands putting people to death that are not within the primitive social norms of living in caves and sacrificing goats and children and owning slaves.

And, unlike Islam, it accepted that source of its moral teaching precisely because it is God's revelation to his people Israel, and it is as Israel has preserved it in Scripture.

Well, I guess atheists lose, then, as they all lazily sit back, drink alcohol, smoke weed, and bully people of religion, calling them hypocrites while not showing their own moral standards so that their own hypocrisy can be judged.

If the righteous «religious» folks spend half as much time worry about their own lives and morals instead of butting into other people's, we'd all be better off.

If you would ask any atheist what their moral system is, the answer always comes back as «I don't do to other people, what I would not want done to me».

S.Lewis» «I am here trying to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: «I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept his claim to be God.»

People with this orientation interpreted the persecution of Jews as a violation of moral principles, and the main goal of their rescue behavior was to reaffirm and act on these principles.

Maybe when Christians stop toting themselves as the moral authority on EVERYTHING and keep their noses out of peoples personal lives AND stop trying to keep taxpaying American citizens from having rights (ie gays)... maybe then they will come into less ridicule.

Religious co-opted morality as it's dominion, but there was morality before religion and there are millions of perfectly moral, non-religious people walking around right now.

Just as Hitler was a failure in his attempt to destroy the body of the Jewish people, the White Rose, and the moral interest of many Germans today in it, will hopefully show that Hitler also failed to destroy the soul of the German people.

I think the American problem is their determination to find facts but preserve people's inclination as it is and the refusal to give any moral directions.

In nearly every nation whose cultural heritage, moral and legal systems developed from this western, Christian tradition, he is free to insult people of faith as much as he wishes.

She is surrounded daily with supporters who bolster her views, people who understand themselves as moral crusaders, pursuing their aims with all the zeal inspired by political ideology or — perhaps more aptly — ersatz religion.

Even People for the American Way, an organization formed to war against the moral majoritarians, admitted as much in a study of textbooks a while back.

But, as John Paul, Havel, and others said at the beginning of the revolution and say now, it was above all a matter of people discerning the possibility and moral imperative of «living in truth» and «calling good and evil by name.»

And to live in society and even just have friends one must prove he or she is a «moral» person, this morality is just a morality that lacks gods, such as a belief that what is good is what brings about the most happiness or freedom or whatever your ethical system supports.

@RUReal, «In nearly every nation whose cultural heritage, moral and legal systems developed from this western, Christian tradition, he is free to insult people of faith as much as he wishes.»

What good are morals if the one giving them supports morals that most people consider to be awful like slavery and discrimination against women, gays and the handicapped, as well as beating children and slaves without punishment in some cases?

A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!

An isolated tribe in the Amazon jungle has just been contacted by the outside world for the first time, do you believe as tf does that his god has written his morals on the hearts of these people?

How is it moral to look to a child sacrifice as redemption of the sins of people not even yet born?

Too many people are still willing to believe that just because someone can quote from the bible, or identify as part of the supposed «moral majority», that they have anyone's interests but their own at heart.

Now I know as soon as I use words like «behavior» and «moral» people will say; «what gives politicians the right to lecture us?»

The moral worth of his cause on behalf of animals or the environment is seen as overriding the etiquette injunction against humiliating people.