Sentences with phrase «morally acceptable»

Whether they are morally acceptable or should be expected in modern business ethics I leave to philosophers and practitioners.

There are Realtors out there, past and present, who I believe did / can professionally conduct ethical, morally acceptable double - end transactions, but they are few and far between.

The percentage of the public that thinks abortion is morally acceptable is higher than it's been in 14 years.

A recent Gallup poll reported that over half of the U.S. population now views «gay and lesbian relations» as «morally acceptable.»

When is it not only beneficial, but also morally acceptable, to lie on your resume?

Their potential use provokes other questions of great importance: is it morally acceptable to delegate decisions about the use of lethal force to such systems?

That doesn't make pirating TV episodes legal, or even morally acceptable.

Indeed, I think it «s morally acceptable to default if your mortgage threatens your ability to save adequately for the future, regardless of whether you can pay it according to some arbitrary definition of «affordability.»

As if that poor ethical choice was morally acceptable and really — up to the individual to make in an individual moral and ethical framework.

As this paper demonstrates, a massive expansion of energy systems, primarily carried out in the rapidly urbanizing global South, in combination with the rapid acceleration of clean energy innovation, is a more pragmatic, just, and morally acceptable framework for thinking about energy access.

Bunzl pointed out that we have already made changes to the whole biosphere that are considered morally acceptable.

The Ethical Question of Euthanizing for Preservation Of course, at the heart of this story lies a difficult ethical dilemma — is it morally acceptable to eliminate thousands of creatures to protect others?

As a summary, I would remark what Stefan says by the end: it's not morally acceptable to tell poor people all over the world that they can't have access to a cheap source of energy like coal or gas.

Here's a slightly more difficult position to defend: We don't know whether adaptation will be cheaper or easier than mitigation, but, since it is the only one likely to be acceptable to voters in a democratic society, it is the only morally acceptable one.

For example, was it morally acceptable for the German government to support the export of German nuclear technology when it was closing down its own industry?

The insight that nations will not agree to what equity requires of them because it is not in their national interest should not be the basis for abandoning an equitable approach to climate change as recommended by the above referenced World Bank paper because national interest is not a morally acceptable justification for national climate change policy yet it is likely to remain the criteria for setting national climate change policy unless a nation is shamed for its ethically bankrupt position on climate change.

Is that morally acceptable?

Is it morally acceptable to use a discount rate for SCC?

As for debates about discipline, the authors ask, «How to strike a legally defensible, morally acceptable, fiscally manageable, and educationally sound balance between the rights or interests of one child and those of many others who attend that school?

It is not morally acceptable to wait for either the charter school market to improve or for the current district leaders to come up with a plan.

The central character's actions in pursuing her feelings, which aren't always socially or morally acceptable, could have been creepy.

The survey, which questioned people in more than fifty countries, asked a number of questions about affairs including whether they were morally acceptable and whether they could be forgiven.

According to a recent Gallup poll, 62 % of Americans now consider embryonic stem cell research to be morally acceptable, and that attitude is pretty consistent across all age groups.

But Lanner argues that basic research is necessary and morally acceptable, and banning it would be counterproductive.

Indeed, it is partly because of this distrust that the termination of life - sustaining treatment — so - called «passive euthanasia» — has become morally acceptable.

Men, women, or no order»; «According to social norms, how morally acceptable is it to harm (men / women) for money?»

Is it morally acceptable to kill the man in order to harvest his organs to save the lives of five others?

What is the morally acceptable action?

Substantial shares say they are not sure whether these interventions are morally acceptable.

There is no admission by the government today or by policymakers in general that assisted suicide is socially and morally acceptable, largely because to an awful lot of people it simply isn't.

Rebecca Long - Bailey says she doesn't use Uber because she thinks it is «not morally acceptable» #r4today pic.twitter.com/NI2NnhBgH 8

According to the survey, only 32 % of the general population say that it is morally acceptable, and even among strong liberals the number is only 51 %.

Or is it morally acceptable to have a situation where those who don't get their name down first, are only able to choose from a lower quality selection of schools and hospitals to be treated at?

«Aid shopping» will be morally acceptable — it must be — and accountability will be more visible and more public, not simply a hidden donor - agency - beneficiary conversation.

Thus, fourthly, some Member States raise point that while the burden - sharing is both legally and morally acceptable (IOW: we will take refugees, of course), the fact is that every country has every right to apply laws as laid down in treaties and can not be bound by their interpretation or suspension by other Member States (IOW: but we will decide who is a refugee and who is not).

When people's sense of what's morally acceptable influences their sense of what's safe, they can make bad judgments about parents» actions.

, replies: «The regulation of births, which is an aspect of responsible fatherhood and motherhood, is objectively morally acceptable when it is pursued by the spouses without external pressure; when it is practised not out of selfishness but for seriousreasons; and with methods that conform to the objective criteria of morality, that is, periodic continence and use of the infertile periods» (no. 497).

Pope Benedict XVI said in comments released Saturday that the use of condoms may be morally acceptable in some cases to prevent the spread of AIDS, possibly foreshadowing a shift in the Roman Catholic Church's stance on the issue.

Even Augustine's doctrine that procreation is the only morally acceptable goal of sexual intercourse is based in part on his concern lest the satisfactions of the world distract us from our first obligation to God.

The cramped and cruel methods used in the modern food industry, for example, may cross the line of morally acceptable treatment of animals....

Better still, taking into account your position that God can do as God pleases and such choices are beyond mortal moral criticism, just cut to the chase and tell us when it is and when it isn't morally acceptable to slaughter children and infants should one be faced with such a perceived divine command?

One will be offended theologically if one believes that the Christian faith must never be identified with any culture, not even with a culture that one finds morally acceptable or even admirable.

Business people continue to believe, mutatis mutandis, that «what is good for General Motors is good for America»; the new middle - class professionals, no doubt with equal sincerity, believe that the «reordering of national priorities» that guarantees their privileges benefits the poor, the underclass or whatever other morally acceptable beneficiary can be plausibly cited.

Similarly, the status of the human embryo, and the value placed upon it, have come under increasing scrutiny over the past decades, and even since DP in 2008 it has become increasingly normal to assume that it is morally acceptable to destroy embryos or to experiment upon them.12 The increasing sense of a loss of respect for human life in its earliest stages is linked to the abandonment of male - female lifelong marriage as the normal structure in which human life begins and is cherished.13 DP emphasises that «human procreation is a personal act of a husband and wife, which is not capable of substitution» (DP 16).

«Identification of Christian social ethics with specific partisan proposals that clearly are not the only ones that may be characterized as Christian and as morally acceptable comes close to the original New Testament meaning of heresy.»

I guess if you think abortion is morally acceptable, you think slavery is morally acceptable.

@Will — Given your admission that you believe slavery is morally acceptable, there's really not much more to say.

In Gallup's 2011 Values and Beliefs poll, they reported 56 percent of Americans consider gay and lesbian relations morally acceptable.

In this period of history, when militant homosexuals not only reveal their liaisons and lifestyles but actively and articulately promote the homosexual relationship as a morally acceptable alternative to marriage, legislation that would require the military to accept homosexuals would do much more to violate the rights of heterosexual military personnel than it would to promote the rights of homosexuals.

Neither is morally acceptable.