Sentences with phrase «moral problem of poverty»

The social scientists do, however, reveal a dimension of the moral problem of poverty that the other three books neglect.

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But at the same time, moral issues of major proportions are the daily bill of fare in newspapers and on television, and our nation seems infected with social problems that have a deep religious dimension: poverty, pollution, discrimination, runaway technology, to name a few.

Even if we can not know the answer to all of society's ills, even if we can not pretend to know how to solve the problems of crime and drugs and inflation and poverty, we can still proclaim that it is obviously and unquestionably a moral wrong to maintain a penal system based on vengeance instead of rehabilitation; to allow human rights violations to go unchallenged (on either side of the iron curtain); to waste vast quantities of food and resources while others are malnourished and sick and poor; or to allow so many children in our own midst to go through childhood unwanted and unloved and even abused.

While an increase in population from 6.8 billion today to closer to 10 billion by mid-century will make sustainable living on the planet a challenge, especially since the bulk of that growth will be among those living in poverty who have a moral claim to economic development, the real problem may not be human numbers so much as human behavior.

Nor did he mention the problems of poverty, nor did he encourage them to find the moral courage to defend funding for their schools, or services for the poor.

At the time, much as Malthusianism before (and again, after it), race was the encompassing framework, that could explain all of society's moral, political and economic problems, from crime, through drunkenness, war, poverty, to recession.

However, the problem of determining where specifically within a given causal chain to assign moral responsibility to individual members is a problem endemic to any collective action whatsoever, from the Challenger disaster, to the BP oil spill, to global poverty.