Sentence examples for intrinsic evil from inspiring English sources

Contraception is an "intrinsic evil," too (as is torture).

The two sides disagree over how to address the "intrinsic evil" of abortion.

Church teaching holds that abortion, even in cases of rape or incest, is an "intrinsic evil".

Matthew Scully calls predation "the intrinsic evil in nature's design... among the hardest of all things to fathom".

Wasn't there the danger, in seeing Hitler as a human being, of losing sight of his intrinsic evil and monstrous, demonic nature, even of arousing sympathy for him?

Father Jenkins has said the invitation showed respect and admiration for the president, but did not endorse his views on abortion, which the church considers an "intrinsic evil".

The set of principles discusses "intrinsic evils" and defines them as actions that "must always be rejected and opposed".

The former, IV(Luper,WDrink), equals the value of the intrinsic goods I will enjoy in my life plus the value of the intrinsic evils I will endure.

Finally, in the last chapter of Principia Ethica,Moore sets out his 'ideal' — a deliberately unsystematic list of intrinsic goods (such as friendship and the appreciation of beauty) and intrinsic evils (such as consciousness of pain).

We might say that death is bad for us because of the goods it deprives us of, and not, or at least not always, because of any intrinsic evils for which it is responsible.

This is a long way from the "intrinsic moral evil" which Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI thought to detect in homosexuality.