Visitors should exercise caution, check their moral qualms at the border and behave as polite guests.
Some otherworldly future inquisitor, most likely a pearly-gates sentinel with the head of a piglet or a calf, would hold him accountable for this delay, a thing comparable to the period when the Allies had learned of the existence of the death camps yet checked their moral outrage against military-tactical considerations.
In this milieu, the men-in-charge check their morals at the door, lock it behind them and go about their business of lying to, stealing from and, if the mood strikes, assassinating one another, with low-level operatives of Lenny's stripe sacrificed as a sort of appetizer course.
Corporate directors need not check their morals at the boardroom door and decide all questions unidimensionally, with regard solely to whether a particular course of action increases or decreases profitability.
There is an impression that an insurer checks the moral hazard.
Later, the Maoist regime's emphasis on sacrificing the individual self to the collective also served as a moral check on people's behavior.
As opposed to Trump, the black female voter is especially invoked as a check on the moral void that would, in the case of Alabama's special election, allow the election of a candidate who had pursued underage girls and spoken fondly of family life under slavery.
But given that the default justification provided by so many of them is undermined by distorting factors, we need to check that some moral intuition is not one of the undermined ones before we can take it to provide justification.
It became common for guards to provide a moral "check" on each other's conduct.
Republicans are on record stating their belief that an unemployment check creates a "moral hazard" and results in laziness as recipients sit and wait for a check rather than look for a job.
