The phrase "moral baggage" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to a person's set of beliefs, values, and experiences that influence their moral compass or decision-making. Example: "The politician's moral baggage, including past controversial statements and actions, made voters question his ability to lead with integrity."
Yet as the authors pile the moral baggage on our shoulders, we begin to sag under its weight.
The movies of Stephen Chow, the Hong Kong-based actor, filmmaker, and kung-fu artist, are best watched without intellectual or moral baggage.
While Chow's movies are in some ways political (they almost always feature a rabble-rousing group of misfits taking down the fat cats), they are best watched without intellectual or moral baggage.
The Israeli Supreme Court, for instance, banned the use of torture in interrogations in 1999, after finding that it resulted in too many false confessions and too much moral baggage.
Latching on to celebrities – awkwardly grafted on to promote a sport they are paid to attend, replete with their sometimes damaging moral baggage – or to the previous decade's big TV idea is so far behind the curve, it's flat-lined.
Compact and glowingly musical, the album reworked silent film scores and nimble kalimba phrases into a humming city tableau, on which the young rapper sulks through his writhing neighborhood with the moral baggage of an Arthur Miller lead.
A firsthand familiarity with the code of life is bound to confront us with the emotional, moral and political baggage associated with the idea of our essential nature.
The big idea behind Candy Professor is that candy carries so much moral and ethical baggage that people view it as fundamentally different — in a bad way — from other kinds of food.
I also know that because most AIDS patients are homosexual men, AIDS--acquired immune deficiency syndrome--carries much excess moral and political baggage; this has made it easy for bigots to play on public fears to the detriment of sound public policy-making.
It's also true that countless non-believers are moral without the extra baggage of religion.
Mackie's argument seems to "load up" the concept of a moral property with a lot of baggage that the non-naturalist need not accept.
