Sentence examples for justified failure from inspiring English sources

The Basic Intuition attributes to the victim not an incapacity for making the correct moral distinctions, but a justified failure to "tell right from wrong".

Sarah Buss argues against Wolf's view in a way that is not agency-denying, because rather than appealing to the agent's circumstances as determining his reasons, Buss believes that such circumstances give this kind of agent a justified failure to "tell right from wrong" (1997).

Generally speaking, he can be absolved from blame because he has a justified failure to tell right from wrong anyone in his circumstances has reason to act the way he does, even though they also have reason not to act immorally.

The Comte de Barras, who arrived in May to take command of the Newport station, justified Destouches' failure to pursue the attack: "It is a principle in war that one should risk much to defend one's positions, and very little to attack those of the enemy".

With Lehman, there was a clear market failure that justified government intervention.

We find that the decision to build additional power generation capacity was necessary and justified, and that the failure to sooner recognise the need for expansion of the country's electricity generation capacity and subsequent delays in commissioning Medupi and Kusile, likely cost the economy over R110bn in lost production.

What makes justified beliefs justified?

But who decided that only profiting from another's success, rather than failure, is morally justified?An example—I've heard it implied that purchasing a credit default swap is only warranted if you also hold the security it insures.

Those actions were taken out of well-justified concern that their outright failure would irreparably impair market functioning and further damage the real economy already in recession.

Amid all our (justified) concerns about equity perhaps our failure to meet the needs of all our young people is the greatest inequity of all.

Once at war, I am reluctantly tribal though hopefully not triumphal, as war -- however justified -- is always a monstrous failure and tragedy, which implicates us all.