In many instances, the most moral act is not to act at all.
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This is also characteristic: Most moral panics are ultimately undone by their own excesses.
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Gantz fired back defiantly that Israel has "the most moral army in the world".
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What you find is that most moral atrocities happened because we excluded people from our moral circle.
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As the brilliant Spanish philosopher Javier Gomá Lanzón reminds us, most moral education happens by power of example.
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However, even in these situations, more than half the participants still felt that this was the most moral choice.
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I might seek out the advice of my most moral friend: What would a person who is virtuous do?
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It's difficult for many to imagine Dany breaking bad because she's been one of the series' most moral figures.
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Colonel Richard Kemp, a retired British army officer, famously said that Israel has the most moral army in the world.
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If there were someone to challenge Arkady's role as The Americans' most moral character, I'd venture to say it's Paige.
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So here we face the other possibility, one less flattering to most moral philosophers: It's their moral judgments that are distorted.
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Among the privileged classes, only the most moral seemed to find the situation troubling enough to help in a significant way.
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That he is simultaneously repugnant and in some ways the most moral person in the story is part of its complexity.
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It's been difficult for many to imagine Dany breaking bad because she's been one of Game of Thrones' most moral figures.
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Our system of government by its original design, coupled with our capitalist economic system, is the most moral basis for a society.
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No reasonable person assumes that even the most moral government tells the truth all the time, for reasons diplomatic as well as self-serving.
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According to Morgan, Negan wasn't always so murder-happy: he became that way when he realized he couldn't save everyone in the most moral way.
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She says she sees her husband — whom she says is the smartest, most moral, artistic, kind man she has ever met — in both her daughters.
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Whether people believe Daniels or Trump, many will simply shrug: We didn't vote for Trump because we thought he was the world's most moral guy.
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Even when asked to imagine that they or a family member were the car's passenger, the majority agreed this was still the most moral course.
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Overall, the respondents tended to feel that sacrificing few for the sake of many — even in cases when the passenger must be sacrificed — was most moral.
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"In other words, even though participants still agreed that utilitarian AVs [autonomous vehicles] were the most moral, they preferred the self-protective model for themselves," the researchers write.
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For instance, in the situation where either the lone passenger or 10 pedestrians must be sacrificed, 76 percent of participants thought it would be most moral to sacrifice the passenger.
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When political scientists call a state rational, they are not saying its leaders always make the best or most moral choices, or that those leaders are paragons of mental fitness.
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So, one argument is that the most moral work to do is simply pursue scientific advances in the spaces where people's moral intuitions would be hard for them to follow.
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"The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) is the most moral army in the world and I am proud to have served in it for almost 40 years and to have commanded it," Gantz told Reuters in a written response to a query about the case.
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That conversation triggered a YouTube binge-watch of a bunch of Mayer's interviews about the Kochs, and several documentaries that exposed the conservative right's decades-long process of funding and promoting an ideology that pitched capitalism as the most moral economic system and all other systems as evil.
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" After Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel wrote on Twitter that "the most moral army in the world will not be preached to on morality by someone who for years has indiscriminately bombed a civilian population," apparently referring to Ankara's battle against the Kurds, Mr. Erdogan called the Israeli leader a "terrorist.
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" "Smart way to get a boost but looking back, probably not the uh ... most moral thing to do," he said in a Twitter DM. Alejandro, another 23-year-old cis man, remembers when he wasn't allowed into a guild, he made a female Blood Elf mage to befriend the guild master, become his online girlfriend, and "rose the ranks of the guild.
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This was and is Obama's greatest sin: trying to divide America by having us believe that we are not part of the most just, most glorious, most moral and freest political enterprise ever devised, capitalism — a political system specifically designed to subject society to moral law — where as individuals we all agree to govern ourselves by the rule of law and to respect that law.
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"Women of Ryazan enjoyed a considerable success both in the Soviet Union and abroad", according to Dictionary of Films. Bryher praised Women of Ryazan as the most moral film she has ever seen.
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Kant, Immanuel. Lectures on Ethics, p. 163 In this understanding, sex is often advised only for the purpose of procreation. Sometimes sexual celibacy is considered to lead to the best, or most moral life.
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Aida Touma-Suleiman an Israeli Member of Knesset for the Arab-Israeli party Joint List said that the Israelis "steal a body, abuse it with a bulldozer, and still argue that the army is the most moral in the world." Adalah demanded that the Israeli military immediately open an investigation into the incident. Two more Palestinians were wounded while trying to evacuate the wounded.
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Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) was a British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer. He is regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism. His particular brand of utilitarianism indicated that the most moral action is that which causes the highest amount of utility, where defined utility as the aggregate pleasure after deducting suffering of all involved in any action. Happiness, therefore, is the experience of pleasure and the lack of pain.
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But researchers using the Kohlberg model found a gap between what people said was most moral and actions they took. In response, Augusto Blasi proposed his self-model that links ideas of moral judgment and action through moral commitment. Those with moral goals central to the self-concept are more likely to take moral action, as they feel a greater obligation to do so. Those who are motivated will attain a unique moral identity.
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Hazlitt 1818, p. 322. See also Mahoney 1981, p. 107: Hazlitt "continually stressed that the most moral writers do not pretend to inculcate any moral and that overt preaching in art weakens that art irreparably." Scattered throughout the chapters are more general critical discussions, such as that on tragedy in the essay "Othello", comedy in "Twelfth Night", and the value for human life of poetry in general, in "Lear", among many others.
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As an economist, Williams is a proponent of free market economics and opposes socialist systems of government intervention. Williams believes laissez-faire capitalism is the most moral, most productive system humans have ever devised. In the mid-to-late 1970s, Williams conducted research into the Davis-Bacon Act of 1931 and on the impact of minimum wage laws on minority employment. His research led him to conclude the government's interventional programs are harmful.
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Moral epistemology is the study of moral knowledge. It attempts to answer such questions as, "How may moral judgments be supported or defended?" and "Is moral knowledge possible?" If one presupposes a cognitivist interpretation of moral sentences, morality is justified by the moralist's knowledge of moral facts, and the theories to justify moral judgements are epistemological theories. Most moral epistemologies posit that moral knowledge is somehow possible (including empiricism and moral rationalism), as opposed to moral skepticism.
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If the most conservative estimates from the sources cited above are used, the ratio was around 1:1. According to military historian and Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren, for every Serbian soldier killed by NATO in 1999 (the period in which Operation Allied Force took place), four civilians died, a civilian to combatant casualty ratio of 4:1. Oren cites this figure as evidence that "even the most moral army can make mistakes, especially in dense urban warfare".
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A libertine is one devoid of most moral restraints, which are seen as unnecessary or undesirable, especially one who ignores or even spurns accepted morals and forms of behaviour sanctified by the larger society. Libertines place value on physical pleasures, meaning those experienced through the senses. As a philosophy, libertinism gained new-found adherents in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, particularly in France and Great Britain. Notable among these were John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester and the Marquis de Sade.
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Steinhardt also gave $1,000 to Lazio in the general election. Steinhardt is a strong supporter of the State of Israel, which he regards as the "Jewish miracle of the 20th century". He views Israel as "the most moral state on this planet", and in a 2017 interview said "The more one understands about Israel, the more comfortable one becomes with the politics of the Israeli government."Ben Sales, Michael Steinhardt thinks American Jews need to stop focusing on religion, Jewish Telegraphic Agency; June 9, 2017.
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Grandier, however, is the most moral person that deserves to be called Christian in the world that the opera presents: a sickeningly corrupt and grotesque one. Tuchowski claims that Grandier's moral victory is emphasized by clear references to Jesus Christ's martyrdom. The final scenes of the opera are obviously a reference to Christ's Way of the Cross. Making this reference even stronger is the last scene of execution, with Father Barre's Judas-like kiss of betrayal and Grandier's last words: Forgive them, forgive my enemies.
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A libertine is one devoid of most moral principles, a sense of responsibility, or sexual restraints, which are seen as unnecessary or undesirable, especially one who ignores or even spurns accepted morals and forms of behaviour sanctified by the larger society."libertine" at WordNet Libertinism is described as an extreme form of hedonism. Libertines put value on physical pleasures, meaning those experienced through the senses. As a philosophy, libertinism gained new-found adherents in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, particularly in France and Great Britain.
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In remarks to graduates of a pre- military academy, Ben-Dahan said, "Your most important task is to increase the spiritual strength and protection of the IDF."Ben-Dahan to Soldiers: Prove Israel is World's Most Moral Army Arutz Sheva, 17 June 2015 In the run-up to the April 2019 Knesset elections, Ben-Dahan left the Jewish Home and jointed the defunct Ahi party in order to run on the Likud list. The switch was intended to elude election restrictions on allowing a candidate from another party competing in elections to run on a party's list.
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The counsels of prudence (or rules of prudence) are attained a priori (unlike the rules of skill which are attained via experience, or a posteriori) and have universal goals such as happiness. Counsels of prudence are actions committed for the overall sake of good will for the individual, and with the best intentions. This assumes, then, that actions done with the best intentions are using the hypothetical imperative to discern and make decisions that are "most moral good". Thus, almost any moral "rule" about how to act is hypothetical, because it assumes that your goal is to be moral, or to be happy, or to please God, etc.
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Gabrielle Suchon (December 24, 1632 in Semur-en-Auxois – March 5, 1703 in Dijon) was a French moral philosopher who participated in debates about the social, political and religious condition of women in the early modern era. Her most prominent works are the Traité de la morale et de la politique (Treatise on Morality and Politics) and Du célibat volontaire (On the Celibate Life Freely Chosen). Suchon is considered to be the first philosopher to produce a significant body of work dedicated solely to the topic of women. Suchon's writing is unique because she specifically addresses women, as opposed to most moral philosophy of the time whose primary audience was men.
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In January 2019, Mitt Romney penned an editorial for The Washington Post criticizing President Trump's moral character. McDaniel said the editorial by her uncle, "an incoming Republican freshman senator", "feeds into what the Democrats and mainstream media want" and was "disappointing and unproductive." In March 2019, McDaniel stated she would not support "the nicest, most moral person in the world" to be president if they were not "aligned with [her] politics". In May 2019, when House Representative Justin Amash became the first Republican member of Congress to call for Trump's impeachment, citing the evidence of obstruction of justice in the Mueller Report, McDaniel criticized Amash, saying he was "parroting the Democrats' talking points on Russia".
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The player controls the Royal Hero on their adventure to usurp the current monarch and to then manage the kingdom. While progressing along the main story, the player will have to make impactful decisions that will reflect their standing among their subjects, and which will also have consequences in the future that the player must address. A morality system divides most actions as either "good" or "evil," with good-aligned actions generally expressing generosity, kindness, and forgiveness, whereas evil-aligned actions represent selfishness, greed, and cruelty. Most moral decisions are prompted by dialogue branches, but the player's standing will also be influenced by side quests and how frequently they commit crimes, such as robbery or murder.
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Controversy erupted over the offensive in Jenin, intermittent raids in the Gaza Strip, and the continued isolation of Yasser Arafat. Mofaz foresaw the wave of violence coming early as 1999 and prepared the IDF for intense guerrilla warfare in the territories. He fortified posts at the Gaza Strip and kept Israel Defense Forces casualties low. While he was known for claiming, "Israel has the most moral army in the world,"When it comes to its morality, Israel prefers not to be tried Haaretz, 8 Jan 2015, he drew criticism from both Israeli and international human rights monitoring groups because of the methods he had undertaken, including using armored bulldozers to demolish 2,500 Palestinian civilian homes, displacing thousands, in order to create a security "buffer zone" along the Rafah border.
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Hendrick, George and Oehlschlaeger, Fritz (eds.) Toward the Making of Thoreau's Modern Reputation, University of Illinois Press, 1979. Mohandas Gandhi first read Walden in 1906 while working as a civil rights activist in Johannesburg, South Africa. He first read Civil Disobedience "while he sat in a South African prison for the crime of nonviolently protesting discrimination against the Indian population in the Transvaal. The essay galvanized Gandhi, who wrote and published a synopsis of Thoreau's argument, calling its 'incisive logic ... unanswerable' and referring to Thoreau as 'one of the greatest and most moral men America has produced'."McElroy, Wendy (2011-05-04) Here, the State Is Nowhere to Be Seen, Mises Institute"Although he was practicing civil disobedience before he read Thoreau's essay, Gandhi was quick to point out the debt he owed to Thoreau and other thinkers like him".
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Thus in epistemology C.A. is the logical conclusion of a strictly determinist explanation of human conduct and denies that our decision making is free in any sense from causal determinants. Conscious automatism, in refusing the compromise long in vogue among philosophers between freedom and determinism, has as its most disturbing corollary the abandonment of ethicists’ traditional reliance upon the notion of moral responsibility as the foundation of most moral systems and criminal justice institutions. It is, therefore, one of the most iconoclastic principles adduced in the history of moral philosophy as well, having profound practical societal consequences if widely accepted. The term was recently given significant new substance in the book Grandest Illusion: The Seductive Myth of Free Will,Echo Park Press, 2006 by Norman Haughness, which states forcefully the case for acknowledging the power of exceptionless determinism in human behavior.
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Williams did not produce any ethical theory or system; several commentators noted, unfairly in the view of his supporters, that he was largely a critic. Moore writes that Williams was unaffected by this criticism: "He simply refused to allow philosophical system-building to eclipse the subtlety and variety of human ethical experience." He equated ethical theories with "a tidiness, a systematicity, and an economy of ideas," writes Moore, that were not up to describing human lives and motives. Williams tried not to lose touch "with the real concerns that animate our ordinary ethical experience," unlike much of the "arid, ahistorical, second-order" debates about ethics in philosophy departments.Larissa MacFarquhar, "How to be good", The New Yorker, 5 September 2011 (archived). In his first book, Morality: An Introduction to Ethics (1972), Williams wrote that whereas "most moral philosophy at most times has been empty and boring ... [c]ontemporary moral philosophy has found an original way of being boring, which is by not discussing moral issues at all."Williams, Morality, 1972, xvii.Onora Nell, "Review: Morality: An Introduction to Ethics by Bernard Williams," The Journal of Philosophy 72(12), 1975, 334–339.
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