Sentences with phrase «moral outrage about»

University of Sydney Associate Professor Julie Leask says the trend towards collective moral outrage about people who don't vaccinate their children risks making the problem worse.

Even those who «know» the extent of climate change find it difficult to feel authentic moral outrage about it.

But if this is «what actually happens», it's hard to resist drawing the conclusion that in the outcry against Dawkins this summer we saw an extraordinary moment when society expressed moral outrage about itself; when we were provoked by one of our own common practices.

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In a region as passionate about college football as the American South, there's no real moral outrage when new cars or clothes or jobs for relatives appear.

Harbaugh on @MikeAndMike about other coaches: I thought it was fake outrage, it wasn't real... The moral of using sanctity of spring break?

«There is a whiff of hypocrisy about the moral outrage over reports that Chinese scientists have been modifying the DNA of embryos.

Deadpool 2 is the sort of movie where the heroes kill a guy — after spending the last act of the film saving that guy so one of the characters will learn a moral lesson — all in the hopes of scoring a quick laugh derived from the joys of knocking off religious zealots, while also using time travel during the mid-credits scene to erase a death that took place earlier in the film so as to avoid outraged howls from Internet folks about the wickedness of «fridging» tertiary female characters.

In that case, where the defendants had been convicted on two counts of conspiracy to corrupt public morals and conspiracy to outrage public decency in respect of the publication of a magazine which contained advertisements inviting readers to engage in homosexual acts, the House of Lords was split about whether a common law offence of conspiracy to outrage public decency existed.

Using outraged and lecturing rhetoric about moral relativism to deflect criticism of Israel completely misses what international human rights and humanitarian laws are all about.

Clinical law professor Abbe Smith has written specifically about the role of moral outrage in poverty law practice.

Ahmed also points out that although stories of injustice, war, and violence are disconcerting for spectators, emotions such as grief and moral outrage function to allow these privileged Western spectators to «feel better» about the injustices that they are witnessing through subsequent discourses of compassion and charity.