Another issue related to assessment of long-term excess morality in patients with hip fracture has to do with the optimal selection of the control group.
Apart from the economic loss to the State and to the patients, the long-term effects for staff morale and morality are far from negligible, as is, perhaps even more importantly, the effect on the public's trust in their health system and its personnel.
(It's also of a piece with the sentimental morality of the long-term movie projects — the "Before" trilogy and "Boyhood" — that Hawke has undertaken with Richard Linklater).
Their business and long-term investment priorities, vulnerabilities and basic morality, are too disparate, as are the exigencies around borrowing — or they should be.
There is, however, no duty to survive; morality is based on a hypothetical imperative: if you choose to live, then you must value your own long-term survival as an ultimate end, and morality as a necessary means to it.
This treatise on "the moral mentality" has provocative points to make about the long-term effects of day care, the police use of Tasers, and the treatment of morality as an academic subject, among other things.
He also noted that training students in the morality of capitalism is "clearly in our shareholders' long-term best interest".
By engaging both morality and the nation's and the research enterprise's own long-term self-interest, perhaps ACS can succeed in sparking desperately needed reform.
Research on the link between religion and sexual morality has viewed religiosity as an extension of a long-term monogamous mating strategy (Weeden, Cohen, & Kenrick, 2008) or as an effort to promote paternity certainty (Strassman et al., 2012).
