The phrase "amoral to" is not grammatically correct in most contexts. "Amoral" is an adjective meaning lacking moral principles, while "to" is a preposition indicating direction or purpose. It is possible to use "amoral" with a preposition, such as "amoral in," to clarify the context in which someone or something lacks moral principles. For example, "He is amoral in his business dealings" or "The movie portrayed an amoral society." However, if the intention is to express lack of morality towards a certain action or behavior, it would be more appropriate to use "unethical" or "immoral." For example, "It is unethical to cheat on a test" or "It is immoral to steal from others." Overall, the phrase "amoral to" is not commonly used in written English and may confuse readers. It would be best to use alternative words to express the intended meaning.
It isn't amoral to think through what will follow from particular actions.
The French may play at the game of progress, but they only play at it, and seem amoral to Americans because they don't submit everything to a puritanical-sentimental inquiry.
And while it isn't unusual in autocratic states to find sentimentality filling the gap vacated by healthy emotions, Mantel creates an enormous problem by placing the amoral – to put it politely – Cromwell at the heart of the novels.
It is amoral to build a dam to avoid flooding in 100 years, when the people living beside that dam are starving today.
It seems economically unsound and profoundly amoral to remove workers from producing areas of our economy to invest instead in an inflated prison system.
Is it "amoral" to have recognized in the summer of 2008 that the price of crude oil was in a massive bubble and set for a violent fall when it hit $148 a barrel.
But businesspeople who don't have distant, amoral shareholders to answer to are able to pay whatever price they can afford, for the sake of some other goal.
Where Abella excels is in his descriptions of the colorful characters who populated RAND at its inception, like the mathematician John Davis Williams, who "personified what would become hallmarks of RANDites — a love of pleasures of the flesh, a dedication to abstract theory, and a sense of absolute self-righteousness married to an amoral approach to politics and policy".
Bonnie and Clyde was one of the most influential American movies of its era thanks to its amoral attitude to the "outlaw", seen from a modern psychological and social viewpoint, and its meticulous recreation of the Depression-era (sepia photographs, carefully selected music, décor etc).
His infamous work The Prince (1531), a treatise originally dedicated to Florence's ruler, Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici, presented amoral advice to actual and would-be princes on the best means of acquiring and holding on to political power.
It is true, as Nicholas D. Kristof writes, that situations like Darfur require foreign aid, but world leaders attending the pope's funeral are not pretending "to honor him by lowering our flags while simultaneously displaying an amoral indifference to genocide".
