Word: moralisms
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...wanted ethical reasoning to be a more inclusive, or a more expansive, category than the current 'Moral Reasoning' requirement," Simmons said, referring to a category in the present Core...
...greater to lesser, revealing instead that they are evaluated based on assumptions about the individual’s ability for doing, in combination with his or her capacity to feel sensations like hunger and pride. The authors of the study suggest that their findings conform to classical theories of morality and responsibility. “How we view a character’s moral worth really depends on how much experience we perceive them to have. The more experience and worth, the more we would worry about hurting them,” said Kurt J. Gray, a Ph.D candidate...
...duty” to employees or that it “should” return some of its profits because it has so much will be fruitless; the only thing that Nike and almost every other for-profit company cares about is its bottom line, and arguing about moral imperatives—no matter how profound—does not affect the bottom line. Nike would fire workers if consumers did not take the hit and pay for laborers’ increased wages...
...China the only country that stands to gain from this selective moral blindness. Africa is another success story, where for years massive human rights abuses went effectively unchallenged while the world arbitrarily decided to monitor other issues, such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with eagle eyes. A bit of data from the Center for Public Affairs in Jerusalem: Between the years 2000 to 2003, Amnesty International released 52 reports on Sudan, where, even before Darfur, a heavily civilian-targeting civil war was killing hundreds of thousands. In the same interval, 190 were released about Israel...
...hours in which to sign a loyalty oath to the Zionist state. Otherwise they will be expelled in trucks.'' Dayan hates the American television networks, which he regards as virtually ! Palestinian terrorist weapons, a judgment heard often. ''Their message to the Israelis is 'Don't be brutal. Be moral.' Fine. We can be moral and surrender the territories, and after that we will have to surrender the Galilee!'' Where does it end, with Israel solving its public relations problem by leaping into the Mediterranean Sea? With a cheerful fierceness, Dayan describes the reality that he sees around him: ''Everyone around...