"ethical merit" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to refer to the value or importance of something based on its ethical aspects. For example, "The decision to invest in renewable energy sources carries a great deal of ethical merit."
It is towards such technologies that our resources must be invested, rather than animal tests of increasingly questionable scientific and ethical merit.
To protect research subjects and follow the basic ethical principles outlined above, there is a requirement that proposed research studies be reviewed by independent bodies based on ethical merit and scientific validity [14, 15].
The other prominent Mohist political doctrine, "promoting the worthy," contends that to ensure the success of the state in securing wealth, a large population, and social order, appointments to the bureaucracy must be based on ethical merit and professional ability.
He divides the virtues into those that are natural — in that our approval of them does not depend upon any cultural inventions or jointly-made social rules — and those that are artificial (dependent both for their existence as character traits and for their ethical merit on the presence of conventional rules for the common good), and he gives separate accounts of the two kinds.
They may also worry that the legwork required to grant access to individual patients could slow efforts to get the drug approved for all patients in need ― an argument that holds ethical merit.
Whatever their ethical merits, both views make logical sense.
Does it mean you need to consider every single extension of the government, weigh their ethical merits against your own and then decide whether you still support the idea of living in America?
The fact that Braff (almost certainly) has at least $2 million in the bank isn't relevant; if he pursued financing from a studio or a philanthropic hedge-fund manager, nobody would question the ethical merits of that request (even though he would still be asking for money he could generate on his own).
Additionally, the trust has its own REC to review the scientific and ethical merits of projects proposing access.
The compelling economic case for fighting malaria underscores the social and ethical merits of eradicating this disease.
We interviewed 25 members from the fields of US HIV advocacy, care, policy, and research about the ethical merits and demerits of the four changes to HIV screening policies.
