Sentences with phrase «moral justification for them»

And only being afraid gives you any moral justification for the practice.

A particular worry of mine is that some developing nations, faced with a climate crisis, may use the notion of the past uncompensated atmospheric imperialism by rich nations as a moral justification for launching a unilateral assault on the climate, by means of solar radiation management.

My moral justification for this?

That was the moral justification for the first wave of Niger Delta militancy, which President Umaru Yar» Adua ended with the Amnesty Programme.

People want to be on the winning side irrespective of the moral justification for war.

Throughout the book, he attempts to set general limits on the evil that may be done, but in different places he defines the limits differently, and in no place does he offer a systematic moral justification for the various limits that he lists.

There is neither metaphysical nor moral justification for this attitude in the world as Whitehead sees it.

The individual is left with few other resources than his or her mind and emotions, the moral justification for various actions.

Christians therefore have no Bible - based moral justification for themselves condemning such acts.

And by the same token, without public awareness or discussion, we have converted the moral justification for laissez - faire capitalism into justification for state - managed capitalism.

Moreover, the radical separation of the procreative and unitive aspects of intercourse, and its widespread acceptance in the community has provided, in turn, the moral justification for masturbation and for homosexual acts, including sodomy.

As one whose professional career has focused on the development and restraints on the initiation of war and the conduct of war, and one who, moreover, holds the deepest moral justification for use of armed force in the service of justice, I clearly belong among the constituency supporting war crimes proceedings.

We have no moral justification for opposing Joseph Kony's army of children, for example, because Joseph Kony claims God is giving him direction.

Even the evangelical New Bible Dictionary has to admit that Yahweh does not give a moral justification for his actions against job.9 Yahweh's answer out of the whirlwind is essentially an expression of raw cosmic power, not a compassionate response to Job's legitimate concerns.

Any business that loses sight of that risks undermining the moral justification for its own existence.

Thus the war in Iraq, he claims, was justified not on prudential or moral grounds (Bowman is particularly dismissive of moral justifications for war) but because September 11 was an affront to our national honor and we had to hit back.

And yet that was never enough to shake the confidence of conservative judges that the appeal to tradition is valued precisely because it delivers a ground of judgment safely distant from the need to weigh the moral justifications for acts of legislation.

Given their recent and continued acts of absurdity, it should not have surprised me that one of their biggest moral justifications for their behavior — while still weak as fuck — was spun from whole cloth.

Not exact matches

And if so, what moral justification could be offered for trying government officials, including judges, for implementing the positive laws of Nazi Germany?

One can concede that the tendency of two - kingdoms theology to subordinate political concerns to a lesser realm made it easier than it should have been for Lutherans under Hitler to ignore or rationalize the regime's moral evils, but the Nazis» anti-Semitism and their exaltation of the State to idolatrous heights could find no justification in legitimate Lutheran doctrines of morality or church - state relations.

So, you're saying that it's somehow more important to continue following outdated moral dictates than worry whether your God may not actually be up there giving justification for following those outdated moral dictates?

Our literature and thought forms have been replete with moral justifications or excuses for arson, rape (on and off the plantation), and — as the advertisers would put it — much, much more.

Religion is described as the «moral sanction», the «solemn completion», and the «universal ground for consolation and justification» for this world.12 This means religion is an integral part of this perverted world, and not simply the perverted consciousness belonging to it.

Despite the hollow moral platitudes offered by countless university administrators, the essential justification for the university is its technological usefulness, its crucial hegemonic role in the shaping of the consumer and the therapeutic culture.

A counter argument to autonomy as a justification for euthanasia / PAS can be made on the basis of religious beliefs and moral philosophy.

It is curious that the people who have been telling us for years that there are no moral truths now insist to us that the laws confining marriage to one man and one woman must not only have a moral justification — that is, reasons to establish the rightness or «justice» that «justifies» the law.

The concern for moral self - justification before God always falsifies our situation.

Thus, for the most part, normative justifications will take place with reference to these already available moral orders.

A moral agent may not abdicate his or her responsibility for giving a normative explanation that can serve as a justification for his or her moral choices.

The concepts «morality» and «moral development,» however much meaning and justification they may have in other connections, are excluded for Jesus, because he sees man in the crisis of decision, and because for him the concepts «good» and «bad» depend upon the will of God.

There would be questions of systematic theology, for example those concerning the nature of justification, the validity, and knowledge, of the natural law within Christian morality, the possibility and recognition of an individual call coming directly from God to the conscience in a concrete situation, and the question of the relation of such: a call to universal moral principles, as well as many other questions with which the ecumenical dialogue will have to concern itself.

Utilitarian moral philosophers may likewise appeal to process metaphysics as a powerful external justification for their ethical theory.

In ethics the dualistic uncertainty over the nature of «reality» and our perception of it is a major justification for modern moral relativism, or the claim that what is called morality is actually grounded in nothing but people's emotive and purely arbitrary preferences.

The message is clear: there can be no moral or legal justification for threatening whole populations with devastating and indiscriminate nuclear weapons.

We are well used to such Evangelicals, sharing with them the doctrinal and moral essentials of classical Christianity, a commitment to the Augustinian patrimony of the West, recent remarkable joint statements on justification, and much common work for the sanctity of life, Biblical standards of sexual morality, social justice, environmental responsibility and world peace.

Even if the commission does recommend that it be legalized, I will not follow that recommendation... I can see no social or moral justification whatever for legalizing marijuana.

«From the point of view of someone who has seen their country invaded and their family blown apart it's possible, of course, for them to construct a moral justification,» he said.

For Rawls departures from equality require special justification, but the disvalue of such departures is not intrinsic, but derivative of the value of moral equality represented by the choice situation behind the veil of ignorance.

Any proposal for action should always have a moral and legal justification, support from countries across the region and a clear strategy in place.»

There is no legal, moral, financial or administrative justification for this policy against which he, Pensions Minister Webb, tabled an Early Day Motion (when in opposition) calling for the abolition of the iniquitous discriminatory Regulation Three.

Walking a perilous path above the rocks of mockery, he reaches for the highest redoubt on the moral high ground in search of justification for his party's existence.

There is «some moral justification» to Labour's plan to end the automatic affiliation fee for some trade union members, Unite leader Len McCluskey has said.

There is «some moral justification» to Labour's plan to end the automatic affiliation fee for some trade union members, the leader of Unite has said.

The left hemisphere also has a lifetime of memories stored about the moral norms of the culture it has grown up in and can use these for justifications.

There have been plenty of opportunities for this or, for that matter, any character to bring up the topic as a moral or legal justification for these actions.

To do so, they must face off against Iron Man, War Machine (Don Cheadle), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Vision (Paul Bettany) as well as new roster additions Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman) and Spider - Man (Tom Holland), all of whom are given commendable justification for buying into their own moral superiority.

Because of the frightening images, metaphorical moral messages too mysterious for even adults to confidently interpret, depictions of cruelty, an implied beating and possible justification for vandalism, this movie isn't appropriate for younger audiences.

Men are monsters, albeit ones with the potential for redemption, in this measured, mechanical portrait of Joseph, whose slow moral awakening comes via an unlikely relationship with thrift - store proprietor Hannah (Olivia Colman), whom Joseph — after attacking a gang of young bar patrons — ruthlessly berates during their opening meeting, condemning her (without any justification) for being a content middle - class idiot whose barren womb is a source of shame.

Indeed, there is no moral or legal justification for this policy.

What moral justifications exist for your answer?