Sentences with phrase «moral equivalence»

To point out this elementary fact is not, obviously, to draw any moral equivalence between injustices: it is to insist only on what Herbert Wechsler rightly proclaimed, decades ago, should be an animating value of all constitutional adjudicaton: the development of general, neutral, principles.

That, I think, is what all the faux - news satires and parodies really spring from — not so much Swiftian denunciation of the world's crimes and misdemeanours, which are certainly legion, but from an equally harsh denunciation of the moral equivalence and empty concern with which the mainstream media report it to us.

There is no moral equivalence between Gleick's theft of Heartland's budget documents and the release of Climate Research Unit (CRU) emails — quite possibly by a whistle blower — that triggered the Climategate scandal.

Until then, let's not help them pretend that any moral equivalence exists.

The CAGW - ists are now into the moral equivalence phase, i.e. they are losing.

I think that playing games of moral equivalence are no more constructive than Mommymommyism.

Jean - Fancois Mouhot reinvents history itself by rewriting slavery in order to be able to make a moral equivalence of contemporary lifestyles and slave - owning.

But the movie's moral equivalence is suspect, casting a negative eye towards Cage for not wanting to fight as if wars were about either soldiering up, or cowering in fear.

But the conflation of these historical complexities makes for cheap pathos throughout 7 Days in Entebbe, complete with weeping mothers and the seemingly endless dredging up of the terrorists» obvious moral equivalence.

The group can marshal tens of thousands of its members to protest what they think is detrimental to the philosophical position of moral equivalence for humans and nonhuman animals.

DeFrancisco added, «I also stated that the actions of the marchers and counter demonstrators were not of moral equivalence.

New York Republican Chairman Ed Cox is blasting Gov. Andrew Cuomo for a «disturbing moral equivalence that equates the killing of five Dallas police officers» with the unrelated deaths of two black men at the hands of police.

New York Republican Chairman Ed Cox is blasting Cuomo for a «disturbing moral equivalence that equates the killing of five Dallas police officers» with the unrelated deaths of two black men at the hands of police.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo took direct aim at the president for his Charlottesville remarks, name checking him in a Daily News OpEd, and writing: «No, President Trump, there can be no moral equivalence between white nationalists and activists who protest against racism.»

In discourse with the Government we have constantly stated that there is no moral equivalence between «gender», «orientation» and «lifestyle».

During the fifties he accepted a theory of the moral equivalence of the United States and the Soviet Union.

This seems to be the statute of limitations in the commentariat on radical moral relativism and its «real world» political offspring — appeasement strategies, moral equivalence theories, «root cause» analyses of terrorism, nonsense about «violence begetting violence,» and self - loathing anti-Americanism of the most vulgar sort.

This isn't just a claim of moral equivalence born from a hatred for the United States.

In his article, Instone - Brewer ridiculously caricatures the Catholic theological answer to this question, erroneously describing it as having to do with the act of sex itself, and even as making a moral equivalence between abortion and artificial contraception.

if you can do that, then you can make moral equivalence of anything.

There is no moral equivalence.

in which Wright badly mischaracterizes the response of the United States to the September 11th attacks, as well as the views of President Bush and then - Prime Minister Tony Blair, declared that the 2006 mid-term elections was an example of God «calling to account those who abuse powers,» showed a disturbing tendency toward moral equivalence between jihadists and those who are fighting to defeat them, and directed virtually all of his scorn against the United States and Great Britain rather than al Qaeda, the Taliban, and the regime of Saddam Hussein.

Note also the moral equivalence.

Why is it that if one accepts that, one counter-argument seems to be that any schmuck / country can come along and say God spoke to them, and somehow that's presented as a «moral equivalence»?

It sickens me that this «Belief» blog has become a home for those who want to disparage Christianity and this column is part of the left - wing attempts to show moral equivalence between Muslim violence and supposed Christian violence.

Smith was careful to note, however, that this new ban is not a matter of animal rights but of animal welfare: «This measure doesn't elevate the bulls to moral equivalence with people.

The far left's disgraceful response to September 11» it has temporized about terror, embraced moral equivalence between the Islamist fanatics who killed thousands of innocent Americans and the military actions of the democratically elected U.S. government, and even blamed the U.S. for....

There is no moral equivalence.)

The fallacy of moral equivalence was a big item during the Cold War.

The first piece in the collection, the title essay, was written in the days immediately following the attack, and Amis himself expresses reservations about it in his author's note: It «indulges in... a reflexive search for the morally intelligible, which always leads to the chimera of «moral equivalence.

I am not claiming moral equivalence between murder and accidents or murder and «acts of god», ie nature.

In 2005 the APA famously articulated the «no difference» thesis: the moral equivalence of children's outcomes in regards to heterosexual and gay parenting.

They've also allowed the often bogus claims of the Brexit supporters to acquire a sort of moral equivalence.

«I disagree with the president and others who believe that there is a moral equivalence between white supremacists and Nazis, and those who oppose them by standing up for human rights.

«I disagree with the president and others who believe that there is a moral equivalence between white supremacists and Nazis, and those who oppose them by standing up for human rights,» Cook wrote.

Pointing to examples such as seeing «moral equivalence in Charlottesville» and treating women «like they're pieces of meat,» Comey explained that Trump's inability to «respect and adhere to the values that are at the core of this country,» most notably the truth, make him unfit to be president «on moral grounds.»

In an email to employees, Apple CEO Tim Cook said, «I disagree with the president and others who believe that there is a moral equivalence between white supremacists and Nazis, and those who oppose them by standing up for human rights.

It's just bluster by an undercredentialed community college instructor and a landscape photographer in an attempt to instill in their fans some misguided sense of the moral equivalences of the two situations and maybe drum up some donations to their own partisan think - tank.

Not exact matches

Made during his Pop period alongside images of clothes dryers, fighter jets and celebrities, there's a suggestion of an equivalence of moral context in mass media images — the personal and family history at the same level as world historical events.