Sentence examples similar to act of wrong from inspiring English sources

Several hold balls, jump ropes or other toys; the teenagers wear the slightly guilty look of an age group perpetually caught in the act of doing something wrong.

On the face of it, when we make a public moral judgment, like "That act of stealing was wrong," what we are doing is asserting that the act of stealing in question instantiates a certain property: wrongness.

Do not punish if you do not catch your Lab in the act of doing something wrong.

According to the most familiar, maximising act-consequentialist criterion of wrongness, this act of murder is not wrong.

Thus, she contends that "the act of demeaning is the wrong of wrongful discrimination" (2008: 172008

An example of metaphysical explanation would be an explanation of why a certain type of act is wrong in terms more fundamental moral facts.

Yet it would be an oddly cohering morality that condemned an act as wrong yet praised the doer of it.

For instance, if a group avoids a certain kind of action, the correct explanation, given the identity and the role of pleasure and pain in learning, could be that this kind of act is wrong.

Mere awareness of what's going on in our system will lead us to knowing the extent of wrong acts that we are leading our body and mind to.

To avoid this circle, we must assume that we know a priori that some act or kind of act is wrong.

Ms. Lutz countered that the issue was not whether the victim was a stranger or a sister; the act of violence itself was wrong, she said.