Whereas all other laws are basically concerned with the protection of person or property, the majority of sex laws are concerned solely with maintaining morality.
"According to Russian legislation, we must work clearly and consistently on maintaining morality, oriented toward the teaching of patriotism in the growing generation, and not toward incomprehensible aspirations," said Aleksei Mayorov, the director of regional safety for the city administration, in a statement carried by the Interfax news agency.
The director and writer don't judge their characters; rather they show how difficult it is to maintain morality, and that the actions of needy people set in motion a capricious fate that damages everyone.
(3) Those concerned with maintaining sexual morality.
"It got harder to maintain the… morality may not be the right word, but the spirit of the thing".
Hopkins – whose first film, Better Things, was shortlisted for the Guardian's first film award in 2009 – has kept plot details quiet, but early word on the film has it as an exploration of how easy it is to maintain your morality when times get tough.
Habermas has always maintained that secular morality — morality negotiated in and by civil society — can, and should, provide humanity with a governing ethos.
For some, relativism reigns and individuals are to determine their own moral preferences; others dismiss the very conception of personal morality, maintaining that any standard that restrains what is considered a natural impulse is harmful to the individual and ultimately to society.
In consequence, for the great majority of foreign-policy transactions, moral principles cannot be decisive" (Schlesinger 1971, 73).The influential American realist, Hans Morgenthau, is anxious to separate politics from morality by maintaining "the autonomy of the political sphere".
"[H]ow can we shun them," she asks rhetorically, "when they won't go away?" Kipnis goes on to chastise the rest of us for enabling these public acts of quasi-contrition; that is, for maintaining a foundation-less morality that'll let anyone off the hook and forgive any kind of hypocrisy.
Prominent evolutionary theories of morality maintain that the adaptations that underlie moral judgment and behavior function, at least in part, to deliver benefits (or prevent harm) to others.
