The phrase "acted rightly" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who has behaved in a morally or ethically appropriate manner.
Example: "In the face of adversity, she acted rightly by standing up for her beliefs and supporting those in need."
Alternatives: "did the right thing" or "behaved appropriately".
Whether Mr. Snowden is a patriot and whether he acted rightly are two different questions.
He doesn't elaborate the point, but it opens up intriguing prospects since presumably we dirty "our" hands in punishing these agents precisely because, in some sense, they are "innocent" or at least do not deserve punishment because they have acted "rightly".
A: My responsibility was not to determine if the deputies acted rightly or wrongly, but how to limit such incidents in the future.
But while she has acted rightly, there's nothing right about a 13-year-old being placed in a position where this type of forgiveness is even necessary.
The theory of economically rational behaviour attributes such free-will offerings to the "warm glow" that arises from "acting rightly" or "being seen to act rightly".
It is also worth noticing that in addition to Kant's describing all moral agents as autonomous (in that they are self-legislating and have the capacity to act rightly through their own self-constraint), Kant sometimes describes as autonomous ways of acting that realize the latter capacity and as heteronomous ways of acting that fail to do so (G 4 440 41, 444; CPrR 5 29, 43, 78).
Agents who are autonomous in the sense of being self-legislating do not consistently act rightly due simply to their commitment to morality; it is that latter way of acting that we might think of as the fullest expression of autonomy in action (cf. Baxley 2010, 57 61).
"She calls her a 'valiant maid.' She trusts her to act rightly".
"We are, however, doing all that we know how to do in order to act rightly".
The "Ring" is, in the end, the glorification of a woman who, as Blythe says, "acts rightly".
The world of "Stray Dog" is one in which anything can happen, in which people no longer know with any confidence how to act rightly: a world whose standards of behavior have become dangerously slippery.
