Strongmen thrive on polarisation: once in office, all three of these world leaders have described their opposition as illegitimate, immoral and "enemies of the people"; Maduro even called those who voted against him traitors.
This dehumanizing apathy and numbness sets the stage for a president to destroy the country without opposition or impeachment; allowing an immoral war to continue and a community to turn a blind eye to the growing unequal distribution of wealth.
It seemed to him that many of his classmates had been untouched by Vietnam (except for a gain in self-regard, accrued from opposition to what they deemed an immoral war).
Some theories of logic consider not only oppositions between propositions but also oppositions between terms ("well" and "not well"; "moral" and "immoral") as contradictories.
Lawyers for Mr. Roeder, who provided the only testimony for the defense in a trial that has spanned several weeks, are hoping that jurors will consider Mr. Roeder's motive: his growing opposition to abortion, which he deemed criminal and immoral, and his mounting sense that laws and prosecutors and other abortion opponents were never going to stop Dr. Tiller from performing them.
Naftali Bennett, the head of the conservative Jewish Home Party, who on Monday reiterated his opposition to the establishment of a Palestinian state, called the vandalism "non-Jewish" and "immoral".
Evangelical conservatives, the public spearhead of opposition, said that even the limited opening being voted on would expose youths to immoral behavior and pro-gay politics, ruining a rare bastion of traditional America.
This is a worldview that emphasizes respect for hierarchical relationships; it privileges the collective over the individual, and regards opposition to the state not only as dangerous to the established social order but as downright immoral to boot.
"It would be immoral to let Venezuela join if it doesn't improve its behavior," said the Venezuelan businessman Eligio Cedeño, who supported opposition politicians before being arrested and charged with circumventing currency controls.
Opposition is growing to these scholarships from groups that promote traditional family values and the belief that homosexuality is immoral.
