"ethically legitimate" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to describe a decision made within a set of ethical standards. For example, you could say, "The company's decision to donate 10% of its profits to charity was ethically legitimate."
"But we're confident that the initiative is artistically and intellectually important and ethically legitimate, consistent with our mission and our vision".
In this view, lies and deception may be ethically legitimate, and the question of error disclosure will depend on the anticipated consequences in a given case.
An ethical framework is robust to the extent that pandemic influenza planning decisions are seen to be ethically legitimate by those affected by them.
The current opt – out approach could be considered an ethically legitimate nudge, that provides a novel paradigm for informed consent with maintenance of mother's ability to turn down the test if she decides to do so [ 12, 27].
By concealing those four facts, the right wing shills could falsely portray Towns as ethically conflicted and obstructing of a legitimate investigation of corruption.
On the contrary, morality is often a motivating force: "People are impelled to violence when they feel that to regulate certain social relationships, imposing suffering or death is necessary, natural, legitimate, desirable, condoned, admired, and ethically gratifying".
The phrase duty of care can thus be ethically dangerous by giving the illusion of legitimate moral justification.
'Accountability for reasonableness' is a conceptual framework for legitimate and fair priority setting and is empirically based and ethically justified.
David Wearing, a teaching fellow in international relations at Royal Holloway, University of London, said: "It remains clear that legitimate intellectual activity is impossible in the UAE, and it isn't ethically tenable for UK universities to blithely accept that.
The assassination of Sun Chuanfang was ethically justified as an act of filial piety and turned into a political symbol of the legitimate vengeance against the Japanese invaders.
That we can spend maybe $5 more in order to shop more ethically, though, is rarely mentioned, nor is the fact that vintage, charity shops, and clothing swaps are also perfectly legitimate ways to shop sustainably without breaking the bank.
