While faith-centering can make some benevolent and good-hearted, it can make others condescending, limiting clear-minded discussion, presuming and acting preachy.
Hills bolsters this case by arguing that if we consider a controversial and low-stakes case say, whether a certain lie made with benevolent motives is permissible we are able to conceive of such a lie being either permissible or impermissible.
eclipse in fashion-for-aid pledge in support of UNICEF KUALA LUMPUR, 7 July 2006 – In conjunction with its 10th anniversary celebration, eclipse, founded in 1996 by Sonny San, has made a benevolent pledge to raise a minimum of RM100,000 (US27,624) for UNICEF Malaysia's Unite for Children, Unite against AIDS.
A sharp screenplay, sublime visuals and benevolent outlook make for an exceptional family-friendly movie that manages to keep adults happy without adopting the standard reliance on regular Shrek-style pop culture references.
The accumulation of plot reversals, absurd coincidences, and neat explanations — they so galled George Bernard Shaw that he wrote "Cymbeline Refinished" (1937) — work, in fact, to make a larger, more benevolent, and more paradoxical point about the human heart.
Finally, to have a character such that benevolent actions make one happy is normally to have a character that encompasses all of the virtues.
Like Shaftesbury and Francis Hutcheson, Butler thought it empirically evident that human beings had benevolent motivations, and he thought it obvious that these benevolent motivations could make us happy and be consistent with self-interest.
But, comparatively speaking, conditions at third world factories where Nike goods are made are remarkably benevolent.
Steve's vision, strength and charisma made him the benevolent dictator – able to align all the forces within Apple.
Not being made happy by benevolent actions would point to a defect of temper or a lack of balance in one's nature if the result was diminished happiness and going against the dictates of conscience.
