If you can't logically value a human life, what
role does morality play?
Not exact matches
Does religion (equated by Justice Kennedy in an earlier case with the belief that «an ethic and a
morality which transcends human invention» exists) have any
role to play in the law?
As we have said, it is very likely that the area of sexual
morality is central here, not only because it has to
do with a problem of such striking contemporary relevance but because it follows from the significant
role which sexuality plays in the total pattern of human life.
Morality or an explicit reflection of the public interest
do not play an significant
role, outside of the fact that, in the same way that neoclassical economics postulate that maximization of aggregate welfare is always good, the Party proclaims that realizing the Chinese dream will somehow engender prosperity at the individual level.
In recent years horror directors John Carpenter and Wes Craven have confronted their genre's alleged
role in debasing the masses — engaging the conservative's paranoia that Hollywood is a prime polluter of public
morality — and in
doing so they've both taken interesting risks with their formulas and fans.
But if the child's moral education begins with a consideration of moral feelings such as empathy and then links these feelings with the enduring elements of
morality, the child's character growth will be enhanced by transforming the child's emotions — which
do play a key
role in behavior — into a lasting set of virtues.