Indeed, the structure of the role morality defence of the dirty hands story provides a curious inversion of the role morality logic since that logic requires that emergency situations allow or even demand the overturning of the role duties by the more general demands of a deeper morality.
Obviously, disagreement stemming from cognitive impairments is no embarrassment for moral realism; at the limit, that a disagreement persists when some or all disputing parties are quite insane shows nothing deep about morality.
By contrast, the dirty hands scenario requires the role morality to triumph over the deeper moral outlook that gives sense to the morality of role itself.
"It harkens to a much deeper Catholic morality of caring for your neighbor — and that's literally what we're doing, is caring for our neighbors".
Maybe that instills some deep-seated morality in them?
Most obviously, a familiar kind of moral pluralism contends that these intuitively attractive rules constitute the most basic level of morality, i.e., that there is no deeper moral principle underlying and unifying these rules.
Yet I am hopeful that the deep sense of morality and purpose stirred in us by the demonic events of Sept. 11 will give some leaders the courage to stand up to China and help restore freedom to Tibet.
He continued, "As to the other issues that draw on the deep springs of morality and emotion, let us decide that we can disagree among ourselves as Republicans and tolerate the disagreement".
While not every show embraced cliffhangers (David Simon's "The Wire" resisted them), many series, like "24," made a fetish of them or used them selectively, as elements of a primal cinematic universe, like "Breaking Bad," a deep meditation on morality that was also a throwback to movie serials.
Nostalgia for an imagined past or a perfect landscape has driven consumption, and tinged it with a deep sense of morality for a long time, perhaps since the very first cities of the late bronze age.
