Sentences with phrase «moral person in»

Robert Pattinson is clearly relishing putting the Twilight franchise ever further in his career's rear - view mirror, but even when you think his Jerome is just about the only vaguely moral person in this film's twisted universe there comes a twist which throws you completely off, as the script essentially points out that Hollywood is a corrupt and corrupting place where no real human values apply.

Please use all your bible expertise to explain why your Gawd would let someone like that into heaven but fry an otherwise great and moral person in eternal hell because they don't believe in jeebus....

I can't help but feel that you keep misunderstanding this is because you always assume you are the most moral person in the room and so no one could be more demanding ethically than you...

Is there ancient wisdom in the bible that can help direct us to being better moral people in the face of environmental threats?

Not exact matches

These are indeed admirable qualities for a person to have and, in some situations, displaying them will serve you well, but both research and history suggest that great leaders aren't always paragons of unbending moral correctness.

Famous people evoke all sorts of odd and perhaps extreme moral judgments in us.

We need, to understand that they are fictional people, who are able to do things that real people can not, but I'm talking more about identifying with their moral code, their values in helping others and doing right from wrong.

The youth appear uninterested in carrying any longer the burden of national moral responsibility for the evils of the Third Reich, and the hard - working people of Europe are disenchanted with the concept of toiling to keep idle Greeks and Portuguese at the beach on their state benefits that began when they retired prematurely from unproductive state jobs.

Food banks, Saul argues, serve as a kind of «moral release valve» for government, permitting it to appear as if it were doing something about hunger when it's doing nothing to address the poverty and social isolation that lead people to food banks in the first place.

Since gossip is most often akin to condemning other people's faults, it also puts the confidants on the same level, reassuring both that they «operate in the same moral universe,» and have the same views on what's acceptable, what's wildly inappropriate, and what's just plain funny.

Given the huge number of moral disagreements in the world, we should think twice about becoming the sort of people who let such disagreements get in the way of engaging in mutually beneficial trade.

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People tend to judge immoral behaviors harshly and judge moral behaviors with skepticism, according to our study recently published in the journal Social Cognition.

«Those aged over 70 are viewed by people as more friendly, more competent and as having higher moral standards than those in their 20s,» the researchers noted.

So, if a business relies on a brand to make money, the risk in any «moral» position it takes on a social issue is exactly in proportion to the number of people who might take the opposite view.

At a moment when the Republicans are talking about entitlement reform, and Ben Carson, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, is proposing to triple the rents of some of the poorest people in the country, the sight of big banks reporting surges in profits that were fuelled by tax cuts raises alarming moral questions.

And in my book on morality and getting these people to grow up I again bring up the example of 19th century industrialists who were incredibly rich and often rather cruel in their business lives who reinvented themselves, so a Carnegie whose business career certainly wasn't exemplary in any moral sense.

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

You only need to read the headlines to see the ethical and moral breaches in all walks of life (and that goes for scientists who who fudge figures as well as business people who fudge balance sheets).

In a particularly disturbing passage in the Casey opinion, the three deciding justices deliberately adopted the role of moral prophecy for a stubborn and recalcitrant peoplIn a particularly disturbing passage in the Casey opinion, the three deciding justices deliberately adopted the role of moral prophecy for a stubborn and recalcitrant peoplin the Casey opinion, the three deciding justices deliberately adopted the role of moral prophecy for a stubborn and recalcitrant people.

That's the real truth, and that's why people are fascinated by other ways which have remained less disturbed by the Gospel that really grips this society, which is that there should be no constraint on individual consumer choice in goods or morals.

Political Life and Human Dignity Mary Ann Glendon («The Bearable Lightness of Dignity,» May) is right on target in noting that within the Christian tradition, dignity has a twofold meaning: «In its ontological sense it is a given attribute of the person, while, in its moral sense, it is a call to an end to be gradually realized.&raquin noting that within the Christian tradition, dignity has a twofold meaning: «In its ontological sense it is a given attribute of the person, while, in its moral sense, it is a call to an end to be gradually realized.&raquIn its ontological sense it is a given attribute of the person, while, in its moral sense, it is a call to an end to be gradually realized.&raquin its moral sense, it is a call to an end to be gradually realized.»

In short, I consider this «reality» show as must see TV which attempts to convince non-Muslim viewers of Muslim self - importance, moral superiority, and feigned persecution with every condescending word uttered by these hypocritical, duplicitous people.

These ideas were the legends of ignorant people in our deep rooted past so help the living and to provide leadership to show people their morals.

Most people's moral compass tells them something is wrong with that; not in Islam.

Well - meaning conservatives, while trying to encourage young people to behave as they should, have lost the moral high ground in the AIDS debate, and regaining that ground will be exceedingly difficult.

The stories of players in these accounts challenge our moral imagination by forcing us to recognize that the uniformed men on the field are not just Football Players, but Persons - brothers, fathers, husbands, and sons like me.

@Ralph N, For the record, though no one forces belief in god (except parents), religious folk are endlessly trying to impose their moral beliefs on people who don't share them.

Academic moral theory, like preaching, «stiffens the backbone» of one's coreligionists (or co «ideologues) by «convincing people who think like you that they are not alone in their beliefs [and] have the backing of someone who is confident, competent, articulate, and thoughtful.»

People didn't become moral or good in 33 BC.

You know the sort of person I mean — those people more interested in an opportunity to assert their own moral superiority than in what either the blogger or the cited author has to say.

Unfortunately, little attention is given to understanding how human dignity of the clinician is threatened and violated in the current health care environment... [which] has led to the systemic violation of the dignity of the clinician (and ultimately that of persons who are sick), created moral distress among clinicians, and the collapse of the healing relationship.

«Not many people,» Elliott notes, «feel a moral duty to take part in these studies»» though, of course, we are more than happy to reap the benefits brought by new drugs.

Professor Grafman was more interested in how people coped with everyday moral and religious questions.

There are also plenty of examples of people without a monotheistic religion that live or have lived peacefully in accordance with their own morals.

In outlining the judicial decisions leading to same - sex marriage, Reilly demonstrates how the invocation of privacy law to protect gay sex quickly obscured the moral dignity of persons, especially children.

I'll leave that to people with horrible morals like Christians who believe in might makes right and subjective morality that allows god to do what they would otherwise NEVER consider to be moral for another being.

«Drug testing,» as Elliott notes, «has always involved a kind of moral trade - off in which subjects are asked to take risks for the good of other people.»

There are many songs written and played by people against whom I have the most fundamental and passionate disagreements in the moral and intellectual realms (which are the most important ones), yet hearing their songs can evoke ecstatic feelings that are very much like feelings of worship and longing for God.

Once the speaker licenses moral ridicule toward the accused, and destroys in him any semblance of moral character, truthfulness, or decency, on what ground will such a person stand?

Some people say that it is pointless, as it can not actually do anything, but in my opinion it does do something; it shows moral and emotional support for those supporting the fight against child abuse.

His father, whom he regarded as a close friend and the most important person in his life, drove home the same moral teachings:

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.»

Self - important simpletons commonly hate anyone that isn't bound to the «moral» standards of verses such as Leviticus 20:13 which commands putting people to death that are not within the primitive social norms of living in caves and sacrificing goats and children and owning slaves.

And, unlike Islam, it accepted that source of its moral teaching precisely because it is God's revelation to his people Israel, and it is as Israel has preserved it in Scripture.

= > treating races differently CAN be fine / moral for the same reason that while it is immoral to favor a white person over an african american for job selection, it is NOT immoral to favor an african american over a white in job selection (within certain industries and to achieve specific goals).

People can be moral and not believe in God.

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He refused to believe that the false ideas of the human person and human history embodied in communism could divide Europe indefinitely; and by igniting a revolution of conscience behind the iron curtain, the man the last president of the Soviet Union called «the world's greatest moral authority» became an agent of liberation for his Slavic brethren and the precursor of new possibilities in international affairs.

With Christianity, although the reincarnation aspect seems to have purposefully removed so that people do not become «lazy» in search of God in this life time, the practical and strict rules governing functions in this life (hard work to lead a prosperous life, improving moral values, etc) are appealing.