Sentence examples for Act immorally from inspiring English sources

If the freedom to do evil is all-things-considered valuable despite its very great instrumental disvalue, one might expect that the more general freedom to have immoral motives, or act immorally (henceforth, the freedom to be immoral), is also good despite its instrumental disvalue.

So in ordinary cases, if you act morally, you are perceived as acting morally, and if you act immorally, you are perceived as acting immorally.

The law cannot therefore impose immoral rules or act immorally.

Although he emphasizes "the amorality of Machiavelli's advice" throughout his response, his opening sentence quotes Machiavelli's famous dictum that "a ruler must be prepared to act immorally when this becomes necessary". Thus, there is a blurring of amoral and immoral advice in Hall's discussion of Machiavelli.

The soldiers are placed in an impossible situation, coerced by the occupation's reality to act immorally.

By contrast, assessments of those who act immorally are less stable and are likely to be revised if their behaviour improves.

And they acted immorally for no good reason.

And of the minority who have made millions, the percentage who have personally acted immorally or illegally is tiny.

Thirty years later, do you believe that these students were disrespectful to have objected to an administration proved to have acted immorally and illegally?

This was an organisation that through its newspapers gave moral lectures to the public that acted immorally and criminally and felt itself above the law".

When we talk about forgiveness in pop culture, what we're looking for is permission to continue to engage with people we think have acted immorally or guidelines on how to treat them.