Sentences with phrase «moral equivalent of»

Seniors are led to believe that buying an AARP product is the moral equivalent of buying insurance down at the local, non-profit senior citizen center.

No wonder the criminal justice system is regarded by many as the moral equivalent of an alien power in our midst.

An appointment to a position for life (the moral equivalent of a «Life Lord» in England or a Senator in the Canadian Parliament, or a federal judgeship in the U.S.) is not prohibited.

In the context of the way Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi characterized thousand dollar bonus gift amounts from employers to workers as «crumbs,» I will be paying my room & board with the moral equivalent of twelve such crumbs this year.

Given that premise, our job is to work out the details and they have hardly been all worked out, but when considering what premises are available upon which to base an «ethics» it seems one that starts with an axiom that an objective ethics is possible offers a helluva lot more potential for what we want, for what serves the life of a rational, sentient being, than one that says it's a matter of your bowels, or random electrical impulses in your brain or that your mind that tells you to murder my children is the moral equivalent of my mind telling me to protect yours.

There have been comparisons of abolition with mitigation, allowing academic activists to claimt that climate sceptics were the latter day moral equivalent of slave traders.

Hence, Franny Armstrong makes the moral equivalent of airport expansion, and sacrificing lives in the developing world.

Said Paul Ehrlich, «In fact, giving society cheap, abundant energy at this point would be the moral equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun..»

The only conceivable way to produce that level of reductions is a full - scale, all - hands - on - deck mobilization, what William James called «the moral equivalent of war.»

In this manner, debate about the environment and associated issues is effectively and routinely silenced by an indiscriminate wall of contempt that associates anyone questioning any part of the warming orthodoxy as either the moral equivalent of a neo-Nazi or of someone who thinks the earth is flat.

It's the moral equivalent of being convicted of murder, only to be released the next day because your trial took 20 years.

Consider again that all serious low - emissions pathways entail momentous transformations, to the point where they can only be imagined by way of a process that William James once called the «moral equivalent of war.»

It's the DMV art scene's moral equivalent of Opening Day.

Local Crafters: Support the «little guy» - this festival is dedicated to highlighting independent («indie») game designers, the moral equivalent of «mom and pop shops» for the gaming industry.

One attendee, Dave Grossman, has described first - person shooter games as «murder simulators» and wrote in 2016 that experts who denied ties between video games and violence in youth will «be viewed as the moral equivalent of Holocaust deniers.»

I haven't read Thompson's «sensationalist» book yet, but I imagine it to be the moral equivalent of Anthony Bourdain's amusing copout Kitchen Confidential, where as «insider» he plays the bon - temp roué, and finks on the fact that restaurants throw out their expiring food into our «specials,» and that new brides, perforce inebriated with love for their new husbands, may occasionally (not often, I hope) be found in flagrante being bagged by daredevil waiters out in the trattoria courtyard.

Kinsley concludes Old Age: A Beginner's Guide with a plea to his fellow boomers to make a grand gesture that would be the moral equivalent of the Greatest Generation's triumph over Hitler: a self - imposed tax on the massive transfer of wealth they're currently enjoying to help whittle down America's mountain of debt.

• The Reading Crisis — Because everything about student achievement follows from the ability to read, we should declare the moral equivalent of war on the illiteracy of our children, beginning immediately in our urban areas.

• The Reading Crisis — Everything about student achievement follows from reading ability, and we should declare the moral equivalent of war on the shameful illiteracy of our children, beginning immediately with cross-jurisdictional task forces in our urban areas.

Bring together this natural impulsiveness and lack of caution with that 800 - pound gorilla known as the sex drive — one of biology's most formidable instincts — then add the pervasive sexual imagery of our culture, and you have a combined force that reduces the teaching of abstinence to the moral equivalent of crossing our fingers and hoping for the best.

So when the B - grade bon mots start flying, it's the moral equivalent of a relatively gory but unspectacular beheading from a serial killer.

Cleaning up our energy habits is indeed the moral equivalent of war.

Yet another soviet apologist who is the moral equivalent of Nazi sympathisers and holocaust deniers.

The above is not meant to imply that lefty - donating journalists working for righty moguls are the moral equivalent of grafty gangsters.

The result is the moral equivalent of «genocide,» the «posthumous mass murder» of centuries of tradition.

Jonah is portrayed as the moral equivalent of a cliché, the misanthrope in a sandwich board that says «The End Is Near.»

What we need is a change of heart such that ecological issues have for us «the moral equivalent of war».

I have often thought that in the old monkish poverty - worship, in spite of the pedantry which infested it, there might be something like that moral equivalent of war which we are seeking.

Thus, in rightist ideology, cattle ranching is morally equivalent to slavery, which explains this bald assertion of PETA's odious «Holocaust on Your Plate Campaign»: «The leather sofa and handbag are the moral equivalent of the lampshades made from the skins of people killed in the death camps.»

What we now need to discover in the social realm is the moral equivalent of war: something heroic that will speak to men as universally as war does, and yet will be as compatible with their spiritual selves as war has proved itself to be incompatible.

[48] Trapping, therefore, is the moral equivalent of using a 1000 pound bomb to kill a fly.

If you are absolutely convinced a fetus is truly the full moral equivalent of an extant human baby, then any political or ideological qualms you have about helping out with things like birth control and child care, or including se - x education in school classrooms.

As we've already been told, the pilgrim along this pathway moves among «shifting and elusive conceptions of goodness and truth»» the moral equivalent of one of those spiraling, pulsating screen - saver images, or a cubist painting in random, perpetual motion.

It is no «moral equivalent of war,» but for a generation that had «known no war» as Pete Townsend put it (i.e., war in terms of a WWII type war), the tensions between these bands, their styles of music, and their fan bases often entailed an antagonism bordering on war.

He's not saying — and no Christian ethicist I know of would say — that lusting is morally the same as adultery, or similarly that anger is the moral equivalent of murder (see Matt.

Making one act the moral equivalent of the other does not advance the cause of those who oppose unrestricted abortion.

There are some discreditable reasons: like Victorians offended by the suggestion that they were descended from apes, some humanists imagine that their dignity is threatened when human society is represented as the moral equivalent of a dish on a turntable.

We are less impressed with her attempts to make moral equivalents of healthy scientific scepticism and the most morally reprehensible acts she can think of.

Not exact matches

Some people who say it, really do believe in some equivalent of The Great Spirit, but those who don't usually mean» I'm reflective and moral, so please think well of me.»

(One searches in vain, for example, for a Protestant equivalent of Vatican II's call for the renewal of moral theology, repeated more recently in the Catholic Catechism.)

It was the equivalent of a complete moral failure.

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

Presbyterian votes on contentious theological and moral issues often fall within the range of 55 percent to 45 percent, the equivalent of a vote of eleven to nine in a local church.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, as we will see, freedom was part of a whole articulated framework of moral and religious values — it meant freedom to do the good and was almost equivalent to virtue.

To give ground in these circumstances» to act as though everything is normal and fine» bears a false witness, and over time becomes equivalent to denying the moral truth of the matter.

«The dogmatic and moral teachings of the Church are not all equivalent,» Francis continued.

What is more unfortunate is seeing numerous people within Labour and on the left joining in, perceiving in some vague unspecified way that Laws» misguided attempts to protect his private life and Alexander's significantly less misguided decision to only pay the amount of tax he was legally obliged to were somehow the moral equivalent to the more eyewatering examples of house flipping that Labour ministers got up to in the last parliament.

Memorial Day sets up the party zone as a moral equivalent to the war zone, hammers that connection home and then stops - content with offering an equation in lieu of an argument

And if someone can speak volumes in a glance or a gesture without saying a word — or if cinematographer Roger Deakins can suggest menace and moral ambiguity by letting the camera slowly creep - glide into a performer's personal space (what Villeneuve calls the visual equivalent of «putting pressure on your characters»)-- he'd much rather do that.

Both films make me somewhat uneasy because they are so confident in their mastery and moral seriousness: neither quite feels like just a film, more like the cinematic equivalent of a Nobel - class literary novel.