Sentences with phrase «moral equivalency»

"Moral equivalency" refers to the belief or statement that two actions or situations are equally morally wrong or right, despite clear differences in their degree of harm or moral implications. It means treating two things as equal when they are not morally equivalent. Full definition
Finally, the media has a face and a name for making its heretofor unjustified claim of moral equivalency between conservative Christianity and Islam.
To say this is not to make the error of moral equivalency because compartmentalizing behaviors may differ in degree, but that variation does not make any particular degree right.
DeFrancisco said he did not «buy the premise» that Trump's comments offered white supremacists moral equivalency with the counter-protestors and he suggested that criticism of the President was overblown.
I certainly do not mean to imply moral equivalency between attackers and victims, but each set of players in Beit Shemesh, convinced that God's will is on its side, has acted in ways perfectly consistent with its short - term political interests.
To start calculating the relative moral weights of political partners and worrying about misperceived moral equivalencies, while inevitable, can not form the basis of evangelical witness and ecclesial policy.
The problem with drawing moral equivalencies between the very real EVIL of terrorism and those who combat it is that the terrorists always win in such a shamelessly disgusting comparison.
Sen. John McCain tweeted: «There's no moral equivalency between racists & Americans standing up to defy hate & bigotry.
I do not believe in violence against any group, but there is no moral equivalency between calling Muslim students names (name calling in common among many adolescent groups e.g. inner - city African American public school and suburban private schools) and slowly beheading journalists and women on the internet.
The moral equivalencies imagined as its goals and evidences functioned, in fact, as secular surrogates for sacred convictions and commitments.
As for trying to equate a moral equivalency of all these WORLD WIDE MUSLIM terrorists against a handful of non-muslims who commit crimes for their religion... all I have to say is: «really?»
* His short interview with Jonathan Merritt isn't always clear; there is some hedging and «as far as I'm concerned» moral equivalency.
First off, to inject Fundamentalist Islam into the equation and play the moral equivalency card is incoherent to me.
«In no way did I make a moral equivalency between Jesus and Muhammad or Islam and Christianity.
You're going to play the moral equivalency card with these two completely different things?
King argued that President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have given «too many indicators of moral equivalency» by urging restraint on both sides, and condemning some of the Israeli shelling that resulted in the deaths of civilian Palestinians.
«There is no moral equivalency between the minimum wage, which effects hundreds of thousands of low paid workers in this state, and raising the wages of very affluent people,» Smith said.
Does the film trade in matters of moral equivalency, as Daniel Mendelsohn claimed in his Newsweek article «When Jews Attack»?
It's a moral equivalency confirmed by the coming conflagration, as neither side seems to see a square full of old men, women, and children as much of a deterrent to staging a massive gunfight.
And in no way am I making a moral equivalency between school reform, abortion, and guns; rather, we can not overlook how much language matters to a movement's meaning.
[Whataboutism] implies that all actions, regardless of context, share a moral equivalency.
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