Sentence examples for a moral calculation from inspiring English sources

By passing the law, Congress made a moral calculation.

Working for Trump means that one's credibility is likely to be damaged, so there is a kind of moral calculation that any Trump supporter must make: Does working for him serve some higher purpose that outweighs the price of reputational loss?

Fost (1994) argues that a brain-dead pregnant woman ought not be counted as a person with interests relevant to the moral calculation, and he urges moving moral attention away from the 'interests' of the fetus as well.

And torture, as an answer to these questions, fails the moral calculation, utterly, miserably, "thanks-for-playing-we-have-some-lovely-parting-gifts-for-you".

Is there to be no moral calculation applied to the sources of suffering, no asking who ordered it, or why?

But that is precisely the kind of moral calculation that the I.O.C. fat cats are relying on to maintain the status quo.

She and her husband worked out this moral calculation on their own, and they intend to never tell anyone about it.

When a rare opportunity for a drone strike at a top terrorist arises — but his family is with him — it is the president who has reserved to himself the final moral calculation.

That, it is not too pompous to say, would in the long run be a marvellous advance in the human condition.In the immediate press of events, however, the moral calculation often pushes the other way.

The obvious absurdity of the original moral calculations — that a quick result would teach the German militarists a lesson or, on the other side, put the French empire out of business — led people to make new, desperate ones.

The QALY standard might not be the best measure of value when deciding how to allocate blood and organs or in formulating consumer or environmental safety regulations; age does not play a linear role in our moral calculations.