Others argued that it was immoral to charge victims of slavery for determining their homelands.
"It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax".
The kinds of horrifying news pictures that are sometimes called immoral and charged with pandering to our baser instincts and provoking copy-cat behavior may have begun in idealism and a photographer's yearning for a righteous place to stand.
When Napster first emerged in 1999, when Parker was twenty years old, there was a belief, among those who shared files of music, that it was immoral to charge fans for access.
Though his father's career in banking had brought great wealth, enough to finance a neighborhood mosque in the family name and hire a private imam at home, his cousins said the young Mr. Abdulmutallab openly condemned the profession as immoral for charging interest and lectured his father to quit.
They believe that it is immoral to charge for water because the stuff is essential and God-given; that private-sector involvement in water is an ethical disgrace; and that interference with the flow of rivers, such as dam-building, is environmentally disastrous.
In September 1842 the Antarctic explorer Charles Wilkes was court-martialed on a charge of "immoral mapping".
PAGE A20 Gay Trial in Egypt In a high-profile crackdown on suspected homosexual activity, 52 men were put on trial charged with immoral acts or religious offenses.
As part of his defense of the Sophists against the charge of immoral teachings, the English historian George Grote (1794 1871) maintained that they had nothing in common with each other except their profession, as paid teachers qualifying young men to think, speak, and act with credit to themselves as citizens.
The British woman does not face the death penalty, says ISNA, but the charges include espionage, immoral relations with foreigners, drinking alcohol, and insulting high-ranking officials.
