Sentences with phrase «high moral grounds»

I mean the wise men and the high moral grounds advocate?

Like some who favor capital punishment, he has decided on high moral grounds that it is better to have the death of one than to risk the destruction of many.

Not exact matches

While these companies are unsurprisingly out of favour with many investors — a lot simply won't buy these companies on moral grounds — they think the sector's high yields, low correlation with market cycles and steady earnings will make investors give them another look, and then stock prices will appreciate.

Interpretations of where it is «morally imperative» to intervene remain selective, and intervention is never purely based on high moral or humanitarian grounds; there are a number of humanitarian emergencies and nasty dictatorships throughout the world in which the international community has not stepped in.

MikeB, The repeated personal moral failings of those who claim the moral high ground on environmentalist grounds... they make the hypocritical greens look silly.

Given this consensus, all groups and individuals have a burden of demonstrating what justice would require of them in terms of emissions levels mindful that, as a starting point, all human beings should be entitled to equal per capita shares of safe emissions unless some higher level can be justified on moral grounds.