Such ascriptions of value to women workers were largely informed by moral considerations originating in England.
But experts have urged caution and said that policy should not be informed by moral panic.
"I don't think policy should be informed by moral panic, which is what it feels like is happening at the moment," he said.
If one takes a wide view of preferences and includes preferences informed by moral principles or other sentiments, such as envy, then many states of affairs satisfy that condition.
"Why We Fight: Moral Clarity and the War on Terrorism" by William J. Bennett, the former secretary of education and drug czar, is devoted to fulminations against public figures whose statements about the terrorist attacks were informed by moral relativism or left-wing anti-Americanism (to his credit, he also rebukes Jerry Falwell "and the other blame-America types on the Christian Right").
Islam sees the human as "a multidimensional creature", larger than the sum of his own desires and appetites, informed by "innate moral values", and responsible to the community.
Nor does the speed with which we make negative moral judgments in such cases show that the judgments are merely emotion-driven: even if there is not explicit reasoning going on in each case, the emotion-laden intuitive responses may be informed by background moral reflection and formation (Pizarro and Bloom 2003).
But for all the compassion of the men in charge, the mission in "Black Hawk Down," and in "Saving Private Ryan" for that matter, is not informed by the same moral imperative as in World War II.
His book is fabulously rich, informed by science, literature, moral philosophy and above all by his own determination to see his subject whole, not to avoid any topic, any idea, any conclusion, as long as it brings him and us closer to the truth.
This conception incorporates their primary aims, ambitions, and commitments to others, and is informed by the conscientious moral, religious, and philosophical convictions that give meaning for them to their lives.
Existing ethical guidelines on how to approach such allocation decisions are informed by many underlying moral principles [ 3].
