This allows the engineer to avoid the trap of situational ethics where perpetrators are allowed to excuse their poor ethical choices because there are no right or wrong answers.
His ethical problems are a perennial excuse for the Democrats to repeat their jeremiad about the "culture of corruption".
One recent email request about an alleged miscarriage of justice, about which I did some preliminary research before excusing myself for ethical reasons (knowing the trial judge personally), was followed up with an angry claim that, contrary to my TV 'personality', I simply wasn't interested in justice.
To the authors' credit, they did state that their findings were "not an excuse for neglecting ethical measures for fertility reduction now".
This is no scintillating macroeconomic track record that should even begin to excuse or overcome the ethical blinders and the dangers that he would pose to financial supervision and regulation.
Guided by Trump-like ethical standards, or with tolerance for such excuses, institutions would have little reason to consider sexual terror a concern of any sort.
Perhaps, on some level, and in the face of social problems that are ultimately simple cases of gross injustice, we find these murky ethical situations gratifying, as if they offer us an excuse — human existence is just too complicated!
But the complexity of some supply chains was not an excuse for a lack of transparency or strong ethical standards and monitoring, Boersma said.
Unlike the previous view, which distinguished between duty and supererogation in terms of the overall costs of enforcing duty, this approach is based on a principle of excuse: most human beings, due to their frail moral nature and imperfection are excused from omitting what from an ideal (religious, ethical) point of view is prescribed as a duty.
Years ago, you described "American Buffalo" as being about "how we excuse all sorts of great and small betrayals and ethical compromises called business".
